Word: weirdness
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What happened instead: I called and got in a fight with some obnox-ious old guy who wouldn't tell me how much it would cost. I'm kind of scared they'd recognize my voice if I went in and then do something weird...
...will be released in New York in May. We think Almodovar is great; we concede that he's misogynistic, but we like him anyway. His movies are always really nice looking with lots of bright colors. That one actress he uses, the one with the crooked nose, has a weird and compelling face worthy of Fellini. She will be in the new movie, whose title we can't remember. Even better, Gaultier and Versace will be doing the costuming. Caramba...
...payment for use of their words, tunes or images. A 1976 law lists some exceptions to this rule, including scholarship and commentary, whereby unpaid excerpting (known as "fair use") is allowed. Parody, however, goes unmentioned. Should send-up artists, whose ranks have included everyone from Lewis Carroll to "Weird Al" Yankovic, be included too? More specifically, can Campbell, best known for his group 2 Live Crew's 1990 victory over obscenity charges, appropriate Orbison's famous bass intro, his drumbeat and his first line without permission from the song's publisher...
...America is this very weird place where we claim there's no hierarchy," explains Hitesh. "But in fact we are a very hierarchical society. However, the Q-RAC is a wonderful place because sports are really very non-hierarchical." Hitesh, however, admits that he's "never been there." (Undoubtedly allowing him to maintain the abstraction necessary for this kind of analysis...
...point that "she talks to me about her boyfriend and I talk to her about my relationship." Although this doesn't make either one of them uncomfortable, since it is an out-of-classroom relationship in addition to the teacher-student one, he admits that "it is sort of weird that no one in the class knows that we are like best friends...