Word: weirdness
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...Campanella Jr. Charles Burnett and Robert Gardener, among others. The presentations have often been accompanied by standing room only question and answer sessions with the artists Says Hudlin. "I'm bringing Black films to Harvard because I have a sense that people are willing to experiment, see something 'weird' while they're students. It I can get them to see an independent Black film. I can eliminate that idea that Black films are only political, didactic works, because they're not. They are as rich and as varied as film in general. There are Black art films. Black adventure films...
DiNovi says that while he is grateful for the council bail-out, he echoes the call of many when he calls for change in the way the council gives out grants: "The council should fund the general operating budgets for several organizations instead of funding weird causes...
...towards creating a new world, however bizarre that world is. As evinced in the story of Menenhetet, a peasant who rises to the post of First Charioteer in the reign of Ramses II and succeeds in getting reincarnated three or four times--ancient Egypt is a land of many weird rites and customs, filled with magic, telepathy and violence. Menenhetet relates his odyssey from a Nile village to the Pharaoh's chariot in the glorious battle against the Hittites at Kadesh to the beds of the royal harem and the Queen from beyond the grave. He also prefaces the tale...
...spring the weather has been weird: violent, Shakespearean. It might have been worse, of course. In the annus mirabilis of 1811, the air was dense with portents: a comet in the northern sky, an eclipse of the sun. The Eastern U.S. was broiled by ungodly heat and swept by tornadoes and hurricanes. Multitudes of squirrels, in the tens of thousands, were seen migrating south across Kentucky. In 1816 Connecticut had a blizzard on June 6. On the Fourth of July that year, the highest temperature recorded in Savannah, Ga., was 46°F The prevailing opinion, for a little while...
...fondness for boasting, synthesizes the results with some distinctly contemporary audio technology and winds up with a sound that invites deejays at local dance palaces to "scratch" the surface. The deejays set the needle down in the groove of a record, turn the disc back and forth and get weird, repeated percussive effects, then jump quickly to another groove, another record, while some rap groups, called MCs, singsong over the music. The result, besides being danceable and extremely def, is familiar and disorienting at once. Just like the clothes...