Word: weirdness
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...cool to be involved with this movie.' " Yet the huzzahs worry Altman a bit -- he remembers that Nashville "got overhyped by the press." And the gush that greeted M *A *S *H and Nashville, he says, was "nothing like the response to this. This is just . . . weird. I've already got more mail than I had total on all the other films I've ever made." Surely he's heard some quibbles, some intelligent criticism? "No. Or unintelligent...
...early 1960s, Price, now 57, had started using auto enamels and industrial pigments along with the low-fired glazes on his work. These gave an extreme density of color and, unlike in traditional pottery, a relentlessly inorganic and sinister look to his "eggs," enameled clay shells with weird lobes like giblets or tongues merging from fissures in their surface -- an "Invasion of the Body Snatchers aesthetic," as someone remarked at the time. Its payoff would come 20 years later, with pieces like Big Load, 1988, and Stamp of the Past, 1989, ceramic chunks like blotched meteorites, with sharply cut surfaces...
...room alone and this guy walke in looking all drugged out," said Edward T. Chen '95, who later called the police. "I wasn't all that frekd out, but it was weird...
THEN IT GOT really weird. What you might expect to be the usual sordid rightist military junta actually went on to implement, of all things, an APRA progressive reform agenda. The regime courted the Church, sympathized with the landless peasants, stressed social justice and generally confused the life out of every political scientist in the world. In 1980 the brass realized Peruvians were getting sick of them and returned power to--of all people--the befuddled Belaunde...
...those who haven't heard"Rattlesnake" and don't know what we sound like,"Rattlesnake" is a pop song for us. Relatively,it's a pop song, because when I play it for myfriends at work, they still go, "Man, that's someweird shit." Anything we do sounds weird in thesuburbs...