Word: weirdness
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...from Michael Jackson. Presley cited irreconcilable differences in her petition. People page editor Belinda Luscombe reports: "Lisa Marie probably fell in love with Michael Jackson because she saw someone in need. But she discovered that of all the people in Hollywood, Michael Jackson is the one who is truly weird. The surprise is not that they divorced; the surprise is that they married in the first place." One group sure to be greeting this news with glee: divorce lawyers. Together Lisa Marie and Michael are worth an estimated $300 million...
Something weird is happening on the hardwood...
...bizarre farewell speech, nicely re-created by Hopkins, captures that spooky poignancy. Then as he boards Air Force One, Hollywood gives way to archive videotape, and we see the real Nixon with his implausible grin and victory wave of the arms--apotheosis and self-parody in one indelibly weird moment. For once, the gonzo director has met his match. Real life, if it's real Nixon, is more dramatic than an Oliver Stone movie...
...dancing along on needle-sharp legs, and also by Wiwaxia, a whimsical armored slug with two rows of upright scales. And then there was Anomalocaris, a fearsome predator that caught its victims with spiny appendages and crushed them between jaws that closed like the shutter of a camera. "Weird wonders," Harvard University paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould called them in his 1989 book, Wonderful Life, which celebrated the strangeness of the Burgess Shale animals...
...avalanching across ecosystems and time," warns Kauffman, are to be found in every chaotic system - human and biological. "We are all part of the same pageant," as he puts it. Thus, even in this technological age, we may have more in common than we care to believe with the weird - and ultimately doomed - wonders that radiated so hopefully out of the Cambrian explosion...