Word: weirdness
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...really don't know the cost," says Roy Munden, a bank executive director who is in charge of the project. "I know it sounds a little weird." Munden does concede, however, that architectural extras being discussed could push the final cost "to the moon...
...first the outcome seemed but the tragic last act in a weird drama pitting police against crazed cultists. But as fresh details began to emerge about the bloody siege that left one policeman and seven blacks dead in Memphis two weeks ago, the judgment and conduct of police officials in handling the 30-hr. ordeal triggered a citywide debate and at least one federal probe. Said Maxine Smith, executive secretary of the Memphis chapter of the N.A.A.C.P.: "The police did not go into the house to apprehend, but to kill." Ray Maples, president of the Memphis Police Association, countered angrily...
...stuck in some weird, high-strung limbo between hope and hopelessness. Inmates' optimism is the manic wishfulness of losing gamblers. Their fatalism is generally not wise but numb, a brute shrug...
...fiction films, and interviews with earthlings who claim to have met extra-terrestrials. Robin Williams, himself the former alien of "Mork and Mindy" fame, hosts the hour-long show. Joining E. T. and Williams are a squad of Coneheads from the original "Saturday Night Live," as well as other weird-lookers from the galaxy of cancelled TV series...
...liberally sprinkled with photos of Black or lower-class white teens, who represent "them." The prose stresses similar stereotypes. "Who can avoid looking at one of these street punks standing on a city street, babbling loudly and sometimes incoherently, moving and swaggering his body in all kinds of weird contortions, with a hat turned sideways on his head, a parks worn inside out, and sneakers with laces untied?" Elsewhere, the authors call for "nothing lead than a complete surrender by all the punks who have roamed the streets across America for twenty years...