Word: weirdnesses
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...yeah, he has his weird side, this bald man in a red T shirt and crisp blue jeans, telling me things that aren't quite true, trying to end the interview early, clearly disgusted by my occupation--but it's a likeable weird. When I leave, he does perhaps the strangest alpha-male thing of all, something I've never heard an interviewee do. He nods approvingly and says, "Good job." You can't be Willis-smooth unless you play the game...
...with an anti-war outburst that ended with the proclamation "Shame on you! Shame on you!" directed at President Bush. Moore said that today "70% of the country agrees with [that sentiment]. They don't support Bush or the war. I am now in the mainstream majority, which is weird; I don't sit out on the edge, I sit here." Moore ticked off each of his films, and recounted the ways he believes the world has caught up with his sentiments. With 1998's Roger & Me, he took on General Motors and no one listened, Moore said. Today, "they...
...show without a gay cast member, while Rosie O'Donnell is a coveted free agent and Ellen DeGeneres is America's sweetheart. The notion that gays must be segregated out of the military for the sake of our national security must strike Americans younger than, say, 40 as simply weird, just as we of the previous generation find the rules of racial segregation weird. (O.K., run that by me again: they needed separate drinking fountains because...
Icky Thump's lunacy is harmless, of course, but when a band this good screws around in its prime--even when part of that band's charm is based on screwing around--it feels a little wasteful. The White Stripes are too weird and talented to be boring, but it sounds like they might be a little bored...
...weird thing is the Vichy Catalan did taste good--and, more impressive, it tasted like something. It had a silvery aftertaste and felt a little thick without obvious carbonation. As I got excited about the water I had come to humiliate, I realized for the first time which side I would have gone with in Vichy France...