Word: weirdness
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King's mimicry is startlingly good, but as always, his artistic sensibility is that of a clever 14-year-old. His interest is caught by yucky death scenes and weird delusions, and he doesn't really care that these aren't the real horrors that adults deal with. "Wouldn't it be neat if, see, she gets her husband to fall down an old well," the reader imagines King thinking, "and he yells up at her to help him. She just smiles and kind of falls asleep, and the next thing she knows he's climbed up the inside...
...people with bad form, pooretiquette, and a lot of people wearing their hatsbackwards which looks really weird," he said
...clean-cut men and women in theirpreppy outfits who haven't been to The Stadium ina year, talking about its weird concrete seating...
...Baker and his Wife, Jack and Cinderella. This is artfully done and a good contrast to the wide open stage of the "forest" where the rest of the action takes place. The tree panels are on a fine line between abstract and unrecognizable; Rapunzel's tower is downright weird. The rotating rake in the center of the stage is put to good use in indicating scene changes and the director only once gives into the temptation of staging a "Les Miserables"-like turning sequence. Bovine Engineer Margaret Chou also deserves credit for creating a stupid looking yet loveable cow that...
...worst hours in presidential power shifts follow the unexpected episodes like the assassination of John Kennedy. On Air Force One bringing both Kennedy's body and Lyndon Johnson, the new President, back to Washington, there played out a scene of anguish and exhilaration, a weird struggle contained in the hurtling fuselage. Devastating sorrow among the Kennedy people turned to a blind hatred against the statutory heirs to power. The Johnson group, though stunned by the death of Kennedy, could scarcely contain their satisfaction at gaining the office that had eluded them in the electoral process...