Word: weirdness
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...global forum on racism and its remedies was never going to be a buy-the-world-a-Coke lovefest, but it's in danger of descending into a deeply weird Tower of Babel experience. Even the Middle East conflict, which has come to dominate the spotlight at the U.N.-sponsored World Conference Against Racism, produces its own strangely dissonant images: Hasidic Jews from New York bearing placards proclaiming that "Zionism equals Anti-Semitism," or Mary Robinson, the U.N.'s Irish Catholic human rights commissioner proclaiming that when she sees vicious anti-Semitic slurs, "I am a Jew." (Sorry, Mary...
Cage used to be just an actor--a fabulously unpredictable one, equal parts promise and menace. For his first decade in movies, he danced on the weird side: as a blond goofball in Valley Girl, the blind Vietnam vet of Birdy, Moonstruck's one-handed Romeo, the drifter haphazardly hired as a killer in Red Rock West. With a personality that mixed yelping hound dog with doleful hangdog, Cage raised moping to an art. He suggested a man wrestling with himself to hide the psycho loner or lover within. He was sweet on the surface and wild at heart...
...portals are open to everyone with an opinion, even if he is not who he seems. In 2001, everyone?s a critic, with his own cute handle (such as Chuck Schwartz, Cranky Critic?) or year-end 10 Best list (Harry Knowles of the popular ain't-it-cool-news.com picked the defiantly weird Requiem for a Dream as his No. 1). The web is where traditional criticism is democratized, where the ?lite meet defeat at the hands of the cyber-rabble. You don?t need experience, insight or a spell- check function (Note to all websters: "its" is a possessive...
...class, which used to be required to slog at least through a little Dickens or Thoreau or even Vonnegut or Morrison in order to get through high school, has deserted books altogether? Or leap-frogged electronically beyond them? We wake up every few months and find ourselves in a weird new world. Do the educated and successful and privileged classes of the information-saturated post-industrial West now consider the reading of books to be something optional and quaint, like candles at dinner - a throwback, arduous and unnecessary, like knowing Latin and Greek (once indispensable among the educated...
...prince is trying to unload a couple of very strange items, which might be called knickknacks if they weren?t so staggeringly expensive and weird. First up, an eight-foot, bronze-plated Trojan horse, which apparently already sold for $1,470 (sorry, folks). He?s also auctioning off a slew of gold-plated toilet paper holders, trash cans, Jacuzzis and shower heads. If you?re not into anything that flashy, you can go for the more tasteful marble Jacuzzis, each of which will reportedly run you only $300. Also up for grabs: A full-size pool table...