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...wavering. Emerging from a meeting with the President, Heflin tried to explain his ambivalence regarding the judge. "He could be an evolving individual with a great intellectual curiosity to experience the unusual, the unknown, the strange," said Heflin. "On the other hand, he may be a reactionary weirdo...
...thinking. Here comes another pistol-packing, Bible-banging, right-wing weirdo who believes every single word in the Gospels and will try to plead, con or force you into pistol-packing, Bible-banging and right-wing voting...
...Lancelot, are exceptions in name only. For all of Percy's fiction revolves around a central question: can humane, civilized life survive this murderous, mechanized century? Details change from book to book, but a number of constants recur. The hero is typically a Southerner and a loner, a weirdo in the eyes of friends and relatives, whose despair at the decline of civilization has lured him into alcoholism, drug addiction or rampant crankiness. His struggle back toward health and sanity is usually undertaken with the help of a younger woman, who may be as wounded a victim of modern life...
Although The Shining is certainly not a good example of the art of storytelling, Dewitt finds it very interesting as a study of strange camera angles. In Kubrick's hands, it often seems as if the madman were behind the camera. Among the weirdo perspectives offered here, the best is an extended shot that follows a child driving a Big Wheel through corridor after corridor of the cavernous hotel, capturing the sight and sound of the toy vehicle passing over carpet and linoleum...
...HEADROOM stars the semi-computer-generated talk show host that everyone in America has heard of and nobody has seen--except on Coke commercials. Not many people realize that Headroom was originally a T.V. movie for Britain's weirdo Channel...