Word: weirdness
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...book in December, inside she found a hand-written note from Berendt, telling her to call Random House for a free trip to Savannah. She paid her visit last week. Berendt, who guided her around town, only worried that Matthews was not sufficiently exposed to the city's weird side. "She saw the beauty of Savannah," he says, "but I'm not sure she got the bizarreness of it.'' For that, of course, she can simply reread the book...
...cartoons are like our thumbprints," said Marlette. "I've found that looking at things in a twisted, weird way is where things come from...
Starkey, on the other hand is strongly in favor of mass nudity. "I think it's weird that people don't walk around naked. If more people were naked more, it would be a better society. At this point we've all taken bio, we've all see people naked, or at least a picture of someone naked. I refuse to believe that people make it to college without ever seeing a person naked, at least obliquely if not personally...
...really weird sense of what's embarrassing. Like one time, we were at UNO's, and I really wanted cheesecake with chocolate ice cream. They didn't have any, so I ran to Store 24 to buy some and I brought it back. Tracy was completely humiliated. But then she'll walk around with this checkered, pastelly-colored air-line blanket over her head and she totally loves it when people comment on it. I find that really embrrassing...
...bank. Leeson coolly explained that he was "buying Nikkei futures here and selling them there." As simple as that, nothing out of the ordinary. One of Leeson's colleagues at another Barings office in Asia told Time of a phone call with Leeson two days later. "He sounded really weird on the phone, like he was in a really good mood," said the man, who often partied with him in London and Tokyo. "He asked me, 'How's life?' He never asked me anything like that before. It was completely out of character. We talked again later...