Word: weirdness
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...Souter comes across to much of the public as rather weird...
Jack Nicholson gets lost in the thickets of plot on his way back to Chinatown. -- With Mo' Better Blues, Spike Lee gets mo' worse. -- David Lynch's Wild at Heart is weird all over...
...weird-looking machines are the solar-powered cars competing in GM Sunrayce USA, the nation's largest ever race for vehicles propelled solely by power from the sun's rays. Built by science and engineering students from 32 American and Canadian colleges and universities, the innovative cars, capable of reaching speeds of up to 113 k.p.h. (70 m.p.h.), are following an 11-day, 2,639-km (1,640-mile) course that began in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., and will pass through eight states. The high-tech Soap Box Derby is scheduled to finish this week at the General Motors Technical...
Smith puts away his students' charming first efforts and goes to work, devoting two or three weeks to each continent or land mass. Africa, hands down the toughest nut, warrants four weeks. "It's got a lot of little countries and weird names," explains Sara Stonberg. There are no tricks to this process, which is the point. Students spend two hours in class each week and another couple of hours on homework, learning the old-fashioned way. They memorize names and shapes, and draw over and over the outlines of countries and land masses (the northern edge of the Soviet...
...them," Henry recalls. "The others jumped behind a car, but this guy fell down. I could see the blood, and I could hear him calling out." Henry remembers his heart racing as he headed home, where "I just calmed down." Of the shooting, he can only say, "It felt weird, I dunno, just weird...