Word: weirdness
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...just seemed weird, it was too soon,” said Trevor D. Dryer ’02 of the efforts to return to normalcy. “It was like there shouldn’t be a day or two [of remembrance...
...Driving down Main Street, I noted how weird it was, the reports from the local radio station full of premature closings. It was like a snow day in Mount Kisco, with the school busses rolling early, but it was 81 degrees and pleasant. Very strange. And then, in the large parking lot, as I held Caroline's hand and we made our way to Belizzi Pizza for her post-dentist reward, I noticed another odd thing. Kisco lies 15 miles north of Northern Westchester Airport, a stone's throw further from LaGuardia and another from Kennedy. There are few distractions...
...circumstances that drew these and many other cartoonists to Hellman's aid may strike anyone outside the comix community as surprisingly weird and petty. Hellman has been sued for libel by another cartoonist, Ted Rall, because of a prank played on him by Hellman. The imbroglio began when Rall, author of the weekly syndicated strip "Search and Destroy" and an occasional contributor to TIME magazine, wrote a cover story for the August 3, 1999 "Village Voice," headlined "The King of Comix." It presented Art Spiegelman, author of the Pulitzer-winning "Maus," as a kind of New York cartooning Nero - made...
Here's the weird thing about connections: the impulse to make them is so strong, so fundamentally human, that we connect with those who cannot make connections for themselves. We will the connectedness of particles. Stephen Sondheim seemed inspired by this idea in Sunday in the Park with George, as "piece by piece" he showed Seurat putting the contributing parts of a painting--bustles, parasols, dogs--together...
...associate China with lush rain forest, Southeast Asian culture and wild jungle elephants, but Banna is more Mekong Delta than Middle Kingdom and has long been a backpackers' stopover between Laos and the "real" China. Because most of the domestic tourists can't get enough of gambling, sex and weird botany, more discerning visitors can find themselves blissfully alone on the many spectacular jungle treks and wildlife and tribal village trips on offer...