Word: weirdness
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...oldest spousal joke in the book: if he's weird, he must be from your side of the family. But in the Unabomber case it was eerily prescient. It was in fact DAVID KACZYNSKI's wife LINDA PATRIK who first jokingly suggested that his brother Ted might be the Unabomber. In an interview the no longer media-shy Kaczynski family gave 60 Minutes' MIKE WALLACE and LESLEY STAHL, Patrik says the more she read about the Unabomber, the more she wanted David to look at his manifesto. "My motive was primarily to put Linda's mind at ease," says Kaczynski...
...Witness parades the same ethnic rivalries and cinematic delirium. Spanning two generations, three hours of screen time and a dozen teeming plots and counterplots, the film is weird and enthralling enough to hook American cinephiles and leave them praying for more...
What a shame it was for the comics of the first decade of Saturday Night Live that there was ever such a thing as movies. First Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner and John Belushi proved their worth as sketch artists who could inhabit weird, endearing characters while running wild laps around them. Then they exiled themselves into big-screen junk where they looked forlorn and their talents were cramped. Ninety minutes of Doctor Detroit offered a lot less pure Aykroyd than five minutes of his Nixon on S.N.L...
...think it is king of weird to start warning us a week before classes start," says Jason C. Shaffner...
...Tuesday afternoon I checked the messages on our phone at the Sheraton in Chicago. There was a weird one for him from the Star. It said, "Call us back--you're going to want to hear about this." I didn't think much about it, given the source. On Wednesday afternoon he got the call from the Star. We were planning to go to the Art Institute that afternoon with my niece Katie. My sister and her husband were also there. He asked them to leave the room, and then he told me about the story. I felt very upset...