Word: strangest
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Received the strangest single in the mail the other day. Universal Records is trying to promote a new dance craze, the "cha-cha slide." True, it's been a while since the last dance craze-was it the macarena? And before that, was it the lambada? But the song accompanying it is terrible, the schlockiest thing ever. But the accompanying instructions are hilarious to look at! Check out the "Turn it Out" step (right...
...History remembers the strangest things: Ronald Reagan's jellybean fetish, Nixon's penchant for tape recorders, Johnson's inexplicable urge to pick his dogs up by their ears. And although you may not feel like it right now, you're in an enviable position: Over the next week or so you have the opportunity to shape not only the way history will remember you, but the way the future will treat you as well...
...what may go down as the strangest presidential election night in United States history, a victor was declared who was not yet a victor, a concession speech was awaited but never came, and an old-style Texas victory party was left in the lurch...
...waiting to ask Gore an impertinent entertainment question - doesn't all this bellyaching about music artists only make their record sales surge? - turned to me after Gore had gone by. "He's like a real person," he said, nodding his head, impressed. And there it was, one of the strangest things about the trail: Repeatedly the smallest thing - a nod, a hello, a handshake - blows people away. For all my time on the trail, I still don't understand the "I touched the hem of his garment!" reaction people have to politicians...
...four countries and abandonment in a nation where he knew nothing of the language or the culture. He broke the law and remains an illegal immigrant, which still poses a problem if he is ever caught. But for now he is here. And that, as he says, is the strangest, most wonderful thing...