Word: weirdness
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...portrays this character so realistically that we feel almost part of his family--that's why we start to cry at the end of the movie. Denzel Washington as Joe Miller speaks frankly what most of us are taught and conditioned to believe, that "queens are funny; queens are weird...all they want to do is get into your pants." It is through Joe Miller that society's "fear [and] loathing of homosexuals" is vented for all to see. Jason Robards as Charles Wheeler is stern and imposing, just as a pillar of the establishment should be; but Wheeler, like...
Anderson himself seems to have inherited a remarkable collection of genes. "I was rather a weird little boy," he admits. A child prodigy in Tulsa, he could read, write, add and subtract before kindergarten, and was devouring college science books when he was eight -- skills, he says, that "did not endear me to the other schoolchildren of Oklahoma." He was also a stutterer, which made him a target of taunts. But that didn't bother him, he says, "because I considered everybody else in the world stupid...
...think one of my pupils is larger than the other. No, not that one, the other one. See? Isn't that weird...
Your pupils are not weird...
...transformed America. Forget the Bauhaus and your house -- it is the Vegas aesthetic, architecture as grandiose cartoon, that has become the American Establishment style. And so the splendidly pyramidal new Luxor and cubist new MGM Grand (both the work of local architect Veldon Simpson) do not seem so weird, since equally odd buildings now exist all over the place...