Word: weirdness
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...freshmen arrive here determined to resist the lure of Harvard-think, they often find themselves giving in. Paul Manina "didn't go to all of that pep-rally stuff;" he's just not the type. But by the time the Yale game rolled around, "you feel some sort of weird school spirit whether you want to or not." With-Yalies around he "felt obligated to defend the school down the line, meaning every word...
IMAGINE! America's almost favorite pair of comedians (excluding the team of George Bush and Billy Carter) answering your questions, pronouncing your name in print! Ask Cheech! Ask Chong! Just send your questions, whether weird or wise, to Cheech and Chong Quizmaster, Ampersand, 1680 N. Vine, Suite 201, Hollywood, CA 90028. We'll dispatch a hard-boiled, hard-nosed, maybe even hard-of-hearing journalist to Columbia Pictures, where Cheech & Chong will soon film Cheech & Chong's Columbia Project; we'll make those guys answer 20 of the best questions submitted (our choice, and that's final). What's more...
Considering the number of books issued in the U.S. (roughly 40,000 per year), some weird coincidences are bound to occur. Here is one of them. Almost simultaneously, two different publishers are releasing anthologies of past work by two living, still productive authors. Such recycling is uncommon in hard-cover publishing, although paperbacks and mass entertainment in general have thrived on it for years. On TV, reruns increasingly perpetuate the forgettable. Record companies expect people to pay good money for slapped-together albums offering the best, say, of Donny and Marie, and they are rarely disappointed...
...black civil rights activist of the '60s. But neither Abernathy nor Williams is regarded today as a major leader by blacks. Scoffed Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson, a black: "When the Ku Klux Klan, Abernathy and Williams agree on the same candidate for President, that wins first prize for weird coalition of the year...
...dark work, something the American Repertory Theater has yet to do.) Performances begin to fray at the edges of the company: Lloyd Morris portrays a terribly sappy Malcolm, and Henry Woronicz as Banquo has too much of that Ewell Gibbons pleasantness to be credible in this nuthouse. The weird sisters, too, seem strangely mundane, more like a couple of Cockney flower girls who got lost on the heath than witches...