Word: weirdness
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...Which woman would you most like to photograph? A: It was Margaret Thatcher before I shot her. I think she got better looking as she got more powerful. Some people think I'm pretty weird...
...Nobel Prizes are presented to people whose accomplishments “cannot or should not be reproduced.” The entire ceremony takes a humorous and somewhat strange look into the world of science. Ten prizes are awarded to individuals who have done impressively ridiculous and weird things such as demonstrating that, biochemically, romantic love is indistinguishable from obsessive-compulsive disorder or creating the self-perfuming business suit. Although many of the ideas and discoveries of the recipients are fairly useless, that’s just the way these mad scientists like it. The awards are presented...
...applicants, my name was not on the lists. For some, rejection starts before arrival on campus: Each year, the Freshman Arts Program (FAP), the First-Year Outdoor Program (FOP) and the First-Year Urban Program (FUP) have to turn away interested students. It’s a pretty weird way to welcome 18-year-olds to college...
...which may or may not have been formative. “It’s kind of a cheap shot,” she says. “If you have a limb where it’s not supposed to be, it’s going to seem weird.” Touche...
...terrible dangers, the uncontrollable anger that was being unleashed for many years. But now surely everyone has lost. If this was done in the name of Palestinians, surely their burden which was very heavy yesterday is even more intolerable today. If it was done in the name of some weird interpretation of Islam, all Islamic states, including the shadowy figures of the Taliban, have condemned it. Some groups may be shedding crocodile tears but the sense of shame and disgust at attacking innocents hangs heavy over them anyway. Israel, too, is not any safer...