Word: weirdnesses
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...country broke free from the Soviet bloc, it is still ridding itself of the effects of communist rule. Employment levels are among the worst in Europe. Roads, telecommunications and sewage lines are in terrible shape. As for Polish political life, Tusk admits, it can only be described as "weird...
...production chief Darryl Zanuck let him shoot the Brit-noir Night and the City. It stars Richard Widmark (who died, also in his 90s, a week before Dassin) as an American tout aiming for the big score, then fleeing from its consequences. In his goon period, with that weird smile (his upper lip raised as if by invisible fish hooks), and outfitted in a checkered jacket so loud it practically barks, Widmark is the perfect sucker in a nightscape made for entrapment. The titanic figure of night-club owner Francis L. Sullivan is just one of the menacing clowns...
...funny—they pick people who are really social and have a lot of friends, and then ship all their friends off to i-banking jobs in New York,” she said. “It’s a bit weird at first, but you adjust...
...Clan. Clan is the crew, the family, everything is family-oriented. FM: When you say ‘The Clan,’ I just think, it just sounds like...doesn’t it sound like... R: Ku Klux Klan? FM: Yeah. Does that sound weird? R: (laughs) I know, it sounds like that only because you think of it like that. But The Clan to us, it means like a family, if you got a bunch of siblings, that’s a clan too, it’s just that you never called it that...I mean...
...rankled a few Christian conservatives who have picketed his show, calling it blasphemous. One elected official of Northern Ireland's loyalist Democratic Unionist Party, angered by the comparison between Jesus' martyrdom and al-Qaeda suicide bombers, urged a boycott; and in a heated BBC radio debate, Bowman quipped how weird it was to have someone from the Orange Order - a Protestant fraternity - "criticizing [me] for dressing up in orange and talking about Jesus...