Word: weirdness
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...writer is Capote himself, of course, a weird little man who has taken his floppy hats, bald chin and rat's voice and escaped his chic playpen. He has returned to America's dusty trails, where his eyes are accustomed to the darkness and his complexion can bear the heat...
...having one of our best summer seasons ever, but it is kind of weird. Maybe 25% of our tourists are not just from out of town, they're from out of the country...
EVERYONE HAD WEIRD NICKNAMES, and they spent their afternoons conversing in bars, the talk often sentimental and always funny. He was kind to them--maybe he realized that his life could well have been spent behind a Seven & Seven, not a typewriter. But the paunchy columnist who wrote sad humor like no one else ever will could not bring himself to admit that even New York had its share of unredeemable scum, that bum was a nice word for derelict, that plenty of criminals were vicious, not loveable. And, in his whole menagerie, there was one character he never drew...
...They knock out a hidden German gun in Italy and are awarded an alfresco luncheon by the women of the newly liberated town. They survive a German ambush and soon after help to deliver a French woman's baby in the tank they have captured. There is a weird battle in an insane asylum, and the death of a child who has survived years in a concentration camp and then dies when Marvin takes him on a picnic...
Ronald Reagan, Carter's certain Republican opponent, has been talking up a 30% slash in income tax rates phased in over three years, which the White House views as inflationary. Thus the stage is set for a weird role reversal: the Republican candidate assailing a Democratic President for fighting inflation by inducing unemployment; the President countering by accusing the Republican of proposing inflation to combat recession...