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Word: freakishness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...strangeness. So each tries to stumble through it by mumbling nonsense, head-butting a ham or licking the pate of every bald man in the audience. Physical comedy is rarely this smart, and almost never this funny. Trained actors, the members of New Bozena succeed in making their freakish characters sympathetic. Bring an open mind and a toupee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The New Bozena | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

...tall as a munchkin from "The Wizard of Oz" and twice as wide. A book so heavy that it takes two librarians to move it. Just such a tome rests quietly in the bottom of Houghton Library, a warehouse for unusual and delicate writings that hides many a freakish volume behind its upright exterior. This ruskie book puts "War and Peace" to shame...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Big | 2/18/1999 | See Source »

Forget the freakish growth spurts of Amazon.com and Ebay -? the weirdest Internet stock of the moment is Broadcast.com. Even as a newborn the stock showed promise, setting a record for the biggest single-day gain of an IPO when it went public last July. When some of the froth settled back then, the CEO confidently said that he wanted the people who bought at the top on the first day to feel that they'd made a great investment. Boy, did they. MORE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Stock More Manic Than Broadcast.com | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

...WHEN FREAKISH ROCKERS ATTACK...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 7, 1998 | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

crackbaby: (n.) (1) an uncool, freakish or weird person. (2) a premed. "Fell that crackbaby to stop spazzing over Orgo...

Author: By Terry E-E Chang, | Title: Speakin' in tongues | 11/12/1998 | See Source »

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