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...myself on the back, but I have tried to live by what I believe is my--my obligation and my responsibility." To my ears, this made it sound as if the special prosecutor views married life as a series of car payments. It was also one of the queerest surrenders in American history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: If You Can't Beat 'Em... | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

Spade appeared on stage after the crowd chanted his name repeatedly and said, "Thanks for the intro. That was one of the queerest things I've ever heard...

Author: By Vivek Jain, | Title: Spade Entertains Harvard | 3/25/1994 | See Source »

...Dubois is not knocking back the gin, she levitates offstage, and there is plaster in her hair to prove it. An other lesbian, Shatov (Elizabeth Laurence), arrives with her girl friend Elizabeth (Wanda Binson) in tow. Two homosexuals enlarge the circle of Mrs. Basil's menage, and the queerest sur prise of all is that, under her cafe-au-lait tan, Elizabeth is black, and her hand is won in interracial marriage by Mrs. Basil's beloved grandson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hepburn Semper Kate | 2/16/1976 | See Source »

Long Island is a queer place to live and an even queerer place to visit. And God knows it must be the queerest place of all to start a rock band...an unlikely origin for a group like the Vanilla Fudge, the band that made re-interpretation of other writers' songs respectable again...

Author: By Henry W. Mcgee iii, | Title: Long Island Blues | 12/13/1971 | See Source »

Perhaps Christina Stead's latest book should not be reviewed, but exorcised. It purports to be a novel of British working-class life, but its overt socialist propaganda and its covert hints of dark doings in sex and some sort of spiritualism make it the queerest mixture of the publishing season-a marriage of those diverse London oddballs, Karl Marx and Joanna Southcott, the hysteric cultist who died in 1814 after announcing that she would give birth to a second Prince of Peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poor Nellie | 9/23/1966 | See Source »

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