Word: strangest
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...profession with no shortage of oddballs, he was the strangest. Erdos had no home, no possessions and no life aside from mathematics. He spoke a language all his own: "died" meant someone had stopped doing math; "left" meant the person had died; God was the "Supreme Fascist...
...live there when his kids get sick. He spent much of the 1980s putting surgical gloves over his head and blowing them up with his nose as part of his act--probably just so he could write off his huge purchases of surgical gloves. And perhaps strangest of all, he refused to kiss Carmen Electra when she was on his talk show. He says it was because she was recovering from a cold. But I think it was because she sleeps with Dennis Rodman...
...strangest moments of the concert, the band and the crowd joyfully flipped each other off during "Over Your Head," inspired by the lines "He gave you the castle, baby/You gave me the bird...
...strangest stories Fitzsimmons shares was of an applicant who wrote his essay with his foot. "He had his friend take pictures," Fitzsimmons says. The essay closed with the line, "I hope to leave a footprint in the sands of time." Really clever, eh? Another student, trying to get noticed, sent in a box of corrected papers--all of them since kindergarten actually. Students have tried everything-pictures of sword collections, diaries, letters of recommendation from the president, pictures with famous people, and all sorts of poems and anagrams...
...depict low-class L.A. kitsch (the 1954 sushi joint, Tommy's family home in the outer 'burbs), but lacks many key touches. Especially lacking is the cool, retro music soundtrack one would associate with such a picture--the orchestral back up tunes whine of missed-opportunity. What is strangest is that in spite of all of this, The Alarmist turns out to be a very entertaining movie. Though one is left feeling incredulous by the turn of events, there is something fascinating about the incongruity. No one aspect of the movie is particularly lifelike; but the unpremeditated weirdness...