Word: weirdness
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From the Roman walls built 20 centuries ago to the weird and wonderful creations of Gaudi, Hughes spends much of the book recounting the history in order to explain the architecture--examining the roots in order to look more closely at the tree, as he might put it. Much of the most penetrating commentary--as well as some of the funniest apercus--is in the second half of the book...
...smiled and went along and shared in the wonder -- but the Candidate is a realist and he knows it. So he said, quietly and almost to himself, "It won't be easy. Bush is wrong about most things, but he was right when he said this is a weird year...
Diebel, 21, is now a Princeton sophomore with a B average, but that hasn't softened his edge. Last year he sported a bristly initial P growing atop his otherwise bald noggin. Says Diebel: "You'll find some weird stuff on my head...
Solomon said he has "no ideological motives." What brought him to New York, he said, was an attraction to the "weird sort of excitement...
UNLAWFUL ENTRY is a movie just waiting to be denounced by some presidential candidate. It's not completely anticop, but a desperate pol could read it that way. Rogue Los Angeles bluecoat Pete Davis (Ray Liotta) has some very weird ideas about protecting and serving Michael and Karen Carr (Kurt Russell and Madeleine Stowe). He comes to investigate a burglary at their house and stays to hit on her and harass him, after Michael sees through his bulletproof vest of politesse to the psychopath beneath. Liotta's chilly boyishness is hypnotic. Jonathan Kaplan's film is a little distant...