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...unreal. It's so wierd that this is actually happening, when we've waited for so long," said one support staff member, clipping a Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) button onto her lapel...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: Union Supporters Take Labor Board by Storm | 3/15/1988 | See Source »

...wierd thing about this Super Bowl, though, is that neither team should...

Author: By Bob Cunha, | Title: Super Bowl Bound | 1/15/1986 | See Source »

...reaching sermons. The grand climax exemplifies this confusion. Purlie, finally ensconced in his church, passionately orates the beauties of being Black...before his first integrated audience. The delivery is emotional, the sentiment compelling, except when one tries to reconcile it with Charlie Cotchipee's presence and with the wierd shenanigans that made Purlie's dream come true...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Purlie's Paltry Persuasion | 12/10/1981 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Joseph B. White, | Title: Stones Roll Again | 6/26/1978 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cold War and Cold Blood | 10/13/1977 | See Source »

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