Word: weirdness
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...lame-duck Democratic Congress convenes to take up GATT. The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade is the laboriously crafted 123-nation agreement designed to lower tariff barriers. In his threatening letter demanding a delay of the vote, Senator Helms, who can make "free trade" sound like some weird practice he once saw in a Mapplethorpe photo, was trying to exploit the fact that Congress has agreed to consider GATT under "fast track" rules that allow only a yes or no vote, with no amendments. Because that rule expires in January, the next Congress, under G.O.P. control, would be free...
Suggestions on what person, place or institution might serve as a worthy opponent for fair Harvard range from the sublime to the weird. One junior offered that Harvard might aspire to be more like the Shriners. (Yes, those are the men who ride little orange cars in parades...
...documentary style, while ostensibly unassuming, is as intense as the Gouldian world it unfolds for us on the screen. The film's fragments wrap us up and then just as quickly unwind--the detached psychological probing is as disorienting as it is seductive. Pain, passion and the just plain weird are glimpsed and strangely haunt the blurry liminal spaces between art and life...
...weird, some of the guys I look to in the NHL," he says, pointing at a poster of Vancouver netminder Kirk McLean that hangs in his room. "I think he's awesome," this last word enunciated with all the fire of one who can fully backup such an assertion...
...senior forward Steve Gaffney admits, "It's all kind of weird...