Word: weirdness
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...prototypical punk moment. It was loud, adventurous, untutored and self- destructive. Something may have been kindled that night, but it took 18 months to work it into a flame. Now the Pogues burn reckless and bright, working weird wonders on old Irish airs, giving errant folk melodies a strong bracing of rock. The new Pogues album has the kind of title that makes a sucker out of anyone who doesn't know the band; Peace and Love is full of spunk and sass, unreconstructed punk attitude hiding a hard social conscience. Chits will no longer be tossed...
MUSIC: Working weird wonders on old Irish airs...
...taken. Says the son: "I was in college at the time and did not hear about it until the crisis was over. The case was never solved, and some people have suggested that my father staged the episode as a publicity stunt. My father may be a little weird, but he's not a criminal." More recently, the bank has been at the center of a political controversy: Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley accepted $18,000 as a consultant last year, then returned the pay after critics suggested it had been a quid pro quo for helping secure the bank...
...videotaping equipment and a secret room hidden behind a moving bookcase. Caruso and her boyfriend, she recalls, used to joke that Stevens was the Green River killer. One day she even asked Stevens about it. "Don't start that rumor," he reportedly answered. "People around here think I'm weird enough...
...energy. Says Carlo Rubbia, CERN's director general: "This is the main road in basic science. You never know where the main road is really going to take you." Agrees Steven Weinberg of the University of Texas, a Nobel prizewinner in theoretical physics: "Maybe we will discover some weird particle for which there is no experimental evidence, and that would open a whole new chapter in elementary-particle physics...