Word: weirdness
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...Weird things happen, and collegiate field hockey is not immune to this. No. 16 Harvard (6-3, 3-0 Ivy) defeated Cornell 3-2 in its only game last week, while No. 18 Princeton (9-1, 4-0) blasted Brown 8-0 but fell to No. 20 Lafayette, 3-2, which dropped the Tigers from their previous perch...
...even remember all of them. Big classes, small classes, sections. Lecture halls with chairs so comfy that it's even better than your own bed, or classrooms with benches so wooden that I wake up with three fewer vertebrae in my back. Good professors, boring professors, weird professors...
...this spirit that the techno beat, weird light effects and eerie pantomime are intended; the best that can be said for it all is that it's trippy. The poem itself, by contrast, is very delicately nuanced, so much so that it can be read simultaneously as the nihilistic sequel to "The Waste Land" and as the first stirring of Eliot's Anglican religious poetry. Some of the images Eliot uses--such as the "multifoliate rose" and the quotations from liturgy--prefigure his highly devout late poems, the "Four Quartets." That's certainly not the idea that one gets from...
Instead he proved anew that he was, as elections expert James Thurber of American University in Washington put it, just plain "weird." For most of 1996 he gave lip service to his advisers' words that the election "is not about me." But a day after former Colorado Governor Dick Lamm announced that he would seek the Reform Party's nomination, Perot entered the race and proved that it really was about him. And by accepting $29 million in taxpayer money to fund his general-election campaign--just like any other pol--he undermined his credibility both as an outsider...
...professor of Literature and Arts C-22: "European Culture in the Latin Middle Ages" wowed shoppers with slides of the Starbucks coffee logo, a video clip from "Pulp Fiction," and an audio clip from a Weird Al Yankovich spoof of Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise...