Word: weirdness
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...beamed vessel splash in the sea. Her decks were packed with people. Thousands of male heads in derbies. Thousands of female heads covered with shawls. It was a rag ship with a million dark eyes staring at him. Father, a normally resolute person, suddenly floundered in his soul. A weird despair seized him. The wind came up, the sky had turned overcast, and the great ocean began to tumble and break upon itself as if made of slabs of granite and sliding terraces of slate. He watched the ship till he could see it no longer. Yet aboard her were...
After a complicated civil trial, lawyers expect to spend anxious months waiting for the judge's decision. But attorneys at the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund think matters have gone to weird lengths in the case of Storage Handler William English and other black employees of the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad. Their employment-discrimination suit-raising issues of promotion and seniority-was filed in 1969. The trial did not begin until January 1973. Then Georgia Federal Judge Alexander A. Lawrence set about pondering his decision. Now, two years and five months later, he is still pondering...
...come to this, because the critics and the friendly folks at Gulf & Western (owners of Paramount, which distributed the film) seemed determined to push Nashville, even though they'd never liked that weird Robert Altman before, and had a hell of a time trying to figure out what to say about his new film. So when the onslaught of praise rained in, as much as for any picture in recent memory, it just about ruined the effectiveness of the film itself...
JUDGING FROM a visit to the real Nashville once, and to the fictional Nashville twice, they're pretty much the same--weird, diffuse, and behind-the-scenes. Driving up to Nashville, Tennessee, is no big deal. At least Hollywood--which is a disappointment too, all 50's Jack in the Boxes gone shabby--has that big sign H-O-L-L-Y-W-O-O-D up in the hills, and a couple of monuments you've seen in the movies. But Nashville's myth was spread by ear, so that without the radio on as you cruise...
...Jagger, 30, last week took Jack Ford, 23, up on his invitation. Jack's home, of course, is the White House, and Bianca arrived with Artist Andy Warhol and plans for a Jack Ford story in Warhol's Interview magazine. "This must be the meeting of the Weird Washington Photo Club," joked the President's son nervously as Andy, Bianca and White House Photographer David Kennerly clicked away with their cameras. After cocktails on the South Balcony, Nicaraguan-born Bianca then accompanied Jack on a tour of the homestead. Though she dubbed her host "a super fellow...