Word: weirdness
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...FREE FALL in Crimson the figure of evil is taken on by an outlaw biker Passionate women, Hollywood frauds, greedy do wells, a weird director making a disaster movie, about a hot air balloon meet, the queen of the TV game show circuit, and a selection of wealthy sophiticates--all make appearances. Each plays a role in what is certainly a formula; but the formula is rendered with such simplicity and compassiong and strong prose that Free Fall In Crimson is wholly irresistible...
...says, "if they want to come to my room, that's fine. But I don't want it to have anything to do with the car." Gadlock, who tells everything under twenty-four and female that they're looking "awful pretty today," is adamant about that. There's a weird ethic going on here with this car. "Hell, now, I wouldn't sleep with Raquel Welch if she wanted it just to sit in the car." It's practically--no, it is--a bona fide matter of honor. A bona fide matter of honor right here in his prefab Ford...
...business has dried up. The strike has disturbed not only the psyches of the fans but all the lives that depend on them. Fortunately, the San Diego Chicken has managed to cope. The Chicken, a cheerleader disguised as wacky poultry who has made himself famous by acting exuberantly weird at major league games, anticipated the strike and scheduled 30 appearances in June at minor league games. "Us chickens like the farms," he crows...
...things delight subscribers-or editors-of medical journals more than accounts of new and weird ailments. Over the years readers of the New England Journal of Medicine have been treated to numerous such "first reports." Among them: cyclist's pudendal neuritis (genital numbness from marathon bike rides on poorly padded seats), water-skier's enema (the result of high-speed falls in a sitting position) and disco felon (a finger infection from constant finger snapping on the dance floor...
...with Superman is a barroom brawl on a delightfully gigantic scale. Instead of heaving furniture at one another, they toss a bus back and forth. And when one of the combatants gets thrown, the trajectory is measured in city blocks. In short, there is wit, even a sort of weird plausibility, in the action sequences that was not present in the first film. Since the major change in the credits is the substitution of Richard Lester for Richard Donner as director, it seems logical to single out the man who did A Hard Day's Night and The Three...