Word: weirdness
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...tiny (average height 5 ft.) Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert are the oldest human inhabitants of southern Africa and one of the oldest distinct races of mankind. They speak a unique and difficult language, which one anthropologist describes as "an array of weird phonemes-clickings, croakings and raspings." They believe God hurled to earth a piece of turf that broke into pieces; the pieces became nations and the particles of dust their own minute, wandering tribe. Today only a few of the 55,000 remaining Bushmen still pursue their ancient way of life as nomadic hunters, tracking game across...
...justify Frank's claim that they possess "the most astoundingly lambent light this side of a Caspar David Friedrich sunset." That must be the most astoundingly nutty thing written by a talented critic about a talented artist so far this winter. But they do have a weird, banal intensity, especially in Viewing the Sculpture, 1980, where a number of chairs in a tract-home parlor survey a pressed-steel hardware-store Lazy Susan, landed in their midst like an alien life form...
Marie Osmond, 21, pop singer, on her own virginity: "People dwell so much on why Marie won't go to bed with somebody, and they think I'm a little weird because I haven't yet. Like I'm missing a big thing...
Wise Blood. John Huston, at his eccentric best, adapts the Flannery O'Connor tale about a Godforsaken evangelist. For red-clay craziness -weird, scary and funny-this...
...tiny park on the outskirts of San Juan's business district, ten people gathered under an almond tree for a weird rite. They laid out a coffin with a paper-and-rag doll in side and surrounded it with four large candles, slips of paper with numerals and percentages, and branches from a local plant called Cruz de Malta...