Search Details

Word: weirdness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...with her younger sister, Christina, 6, who worships Moceanu's every step. She balks at her father's overprotectiveness. Boys? "Don't even get me started," she says, rolling her eyes. "My mom's a little better. But mention anything about boys, and my dad goes crazy." She has weird rituals. Ask her about her injury-free career, and she scurries for a balance beam to knock wood. Most refreshing, unlike so many world-class gymnasts, who sound as if they've spent too many hours in airless gyms inhaling chalk powder and practicing the mantra "I just want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOMINIQUE MOCEANU: FLEXIBLE FLYER | 6/28/1996 | See Source »

That's a measure of how annoyingly weird the season was for the Crimson. This team could lose to Cornell by two but almost knock off Princeton...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: F. Hockey Can't Find Footing | 6/6/1996 | See Source »

...feel kind of weird when I'm watching the film with my parents," says Matarazzo, now 13. "I'm like, 'O.K., Mom, put your hands over your ears.'" The kissing scene was worse: "Mom was on the set, and I asked her really nicely if she could, like, go somewhere while I did it." Proving that Heather's life is much nicer than the fictional Dawn's, Mrs. Matarazzo obliged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: UN-HAPPY DAYS | 6/3/1996 | See Source »

MULTIPLICITY (July 12). Life is too much for one man (husband-father-careerist Michael Keaton). So, aided by weird science, he becomes three men--himself and a couple of clones--two of whom he can't trust. The trailer suggests that director Harold Ramis is revisiting what he did in Groundhog Day: underplaying a man's pleasure, then exasperation, in the face of the miraculous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: SUDDENLY THIS SUMMER | 5/13/1996 | See Source »

...July 26). A weird guy (De Niro) stalks a star (Wesley Snipes). That's it, at least in the high-concept, low-content trailer, which is all sweat and slow menace. We guess it's the same plot as The Cable Guy, perhaps with fewer laughs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: SUDDENLY THIS SUMMER | 5/13/1996 | See Source »

Previous | 339 | 340 | 341 | 342 | 343 | 344 | 345 | 346 | 347 | 348 | 349 | 350 | 351 | 352 | 353 | 354 | 355 | 356 | 357 | 358 | 359 | Next