Word: strangest
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While the living Marilyn was all things to all men, her corpse has taken on its strangest incarnation of all as a feminist icon. It all started in 1972 when Gloria Steinem wrote an essay on Marilyn Monroe for Ms. Magazine. The piece portrayed Monroe as a pre-feminist victim of male exploitation. Appropriately titled "The Woman Who Died Too Soon," it was later anthologized in Steinem's book Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions. It has now become the basis for her latest work...
This is a man whose first great song was called Psycho Killer. A man who is the formative force behind Talking Heads, one of the decade's most formidable bands, a group responsible for the sweetest, strangest, funniest rock to roll over the '70s and nestle into the '80s. A man who should be hanging close to the set, seeing to the details of directing his first feature film, not striking out on some weird nocturnal expedition in search of hymenopterous marauders. He may not resemble the manic murderer in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, but he will never...
...Daniloff incident suggests, these two sets of mind have a way of coming together in the strangest places, which would indicate that poetry and politics have basic things in common. One is the need to create a sense of urgency. Poets and politicians are alike in the frantic force of their opinions. When either speaks his mind, he is like the Ancient Mariner; he seizes the public by the collar as if to say: Accept my perspective and be converted...
Sounds odd, doesn't it? But that is only because the movies have lately forgotten a fact that never used to escape them, which is that love can turn up in the strangest places. And is never more welcome, as a sign of human grace, than when the pressure of deadly events is at its height...
...Mistook His Wife for a Hat is surely the season's strangest book title. Nonetheless, the collection of literate yet authoritative case studies by Neurologist Oliver Sacks, 52, has been on bestseller lists across the country these past 13 weeks. "I am equally interested in diseases and people," says Sacks, who teaches and practices in New York City, and his accounts of loss, excess and aberration always seek the individual behind the disorder. Perhaps because such a readable combination of erudition and compassion is so rare, Sacks' four books have earned him a quasineurological disorder of his own: the assault...