Word: weirdness
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Gremlins is more than a concordance of metaschlock; it never sacrifices the narrative payoff for an in joke. It is as weird as your Uncle Floyd and as embraceable as little Gizmo. It will lure lots of people into the moviehouses and send them out with shivers and smiles. One word of caution though. As you settle into your seat, whatever you do, don't let your arm drape down so it's just above floor level. Because The Gremle-uns'll git you Ef you Don't Watch...
...news directors apparently have a different approach to those distant catastrophies in weird-sounding places. The standing commandment for this amorphous category is "just tell me the main stuff and don't bother with the particulars...
First of all, Markey was a very good candidate, and the weird thing was that he know it and mentioned it when he quit. He noted that he had raized the most money and had probably corralled the most delegates, but, he kept chanting, this was a "personal decision." Markey does deserve the criticism that he wears his greasy ambition on his sleeve, and that he is something of a political light-weight, but there's no denying that he has also done a fine job of shaking up the Washington establishment on the freeze issue. It was Markey...
...unnerving waiting--this process has been going on for months," said Benjamin R. Reder '85, chairman of Cabot's House Committee. "It's kind of weird to go home with this unsettled feeling," he added...
...death, god, incest, repentance, crime do not exist. I obey my own law." Finally, Cenci's angry wife and angrier daughter have him killed. All the preceeding facts are the parts of the play that are conclusively true. Everything else that the audience sees--embarrassingly florid and melodramatic orations, weird communions with the gods of darkness, shrieks, screams and flashing lights--is so far out of the ordinary as to fire debate as to t he meaning of the piece--that is, if the piece has any meaning...