Word: wierd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Away Eyes" is pure fun, as Jagger and Richard do a hokey country ballad about a truckstop girl "with far away eyes" in Bakersfield, California. Jagger's satire of radio preachers is particularly humorous. The album closes with "Shattered," a wierd soliloquy on the perils of New York, which Jagger talks-sings over a murky riff. Jagger sums up life as "laughter, joy and loneliness and sex and sex and sex and sex," and gloats ironically, "Look at me, I been shattered...
Claire's Knee. The fifth of Eric Rohmer's "Six Moral Tales" is a sort of bagatelle within a book within a film. It's a wierd sort of whymsical fiction about a diplomat on vacation who becomes hopelessly pre-occupied with the knee of a seventeen year old girl who could care less about him -- all of which Rohmer presents as a story coming to life in the mind of a real-life author who keeps considering and rearranging the events as he writes. Rohmer handles this narrative complexity light-heatedly enough to make it fun rather than pretentious...
...These wierd students are more than likely members of house crew teams and every morning for the last month they have been descending in flocks of nine on Weld Boathouse...
...first of a series of selections ultimately resulting in the National Field Hockey Team, this selection places Dupuis and her teammates on the same competitive level as their coach. Dupuis says the idea of playing Field, who plays for Boston 1, probably the best regional team, is "really wierd and very scary...
Murder at the Boston Garden A comedy mystery about the adventures of a Boston private eye and part-time real estate agent who investigates a series of strange murders at the Boston Garden and the fate of a new basketball team called the Boston Ceramics. Sound pretty wierd. W ritten by Robin Brecker of the Boston Repetory Theatre and performed by the Rep in the Theatre in the Garage in Harvard Square, through mid-January. Shows W ednesday through Sunday at 8:08 p.m. Promptly...