Word: weirdness
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...Brattle Square, usually late in the afternoon or early at night, and the front door of the Coop, a couple of hours after closing time. Lately a group of jugglers have been using the Brattle Square spot and they are okay if you like jugglers. The Coop location has weird acoustics because of its cave-like qualities and usually attracts good guitarists...
...works?" he said. "Harvard can't do anything to you you don't deserve. If you have no weaknesses, you can just sit back and enjoy it--you're golden." I waited for the rest of the theory--we were going to see some movie, I think, meeting some weird friend of his from New York who'd come to Boston to run in the Marathon, even though he was half crippled, or something...
...little more daring, a little more imagination on Schlesinger's part. He might have forsaken the gaudy, lush colors with which he chose to evoke Hollywood for something simpler, more barren, might even have filmed it in black and white, thereby allowing his excellent cast to draw their weird, surrcal characters against a stark background instead of having them clash confusingly with their environment. He would have done well to have completely eliminated Tod and had more confidence in his own cinematographic eye to paint the spectacle...
...Weird things go on at Fenway--not really weird. I guess, just if you think about them long enough. These drunks get into shouting matches and smart-ass college kids tell them to ennunciate, and when the drunks do the smart-ass college kids stare at the field in triumph and say. "Let's hear it for ennunciation!" "If this were some other country," someone asked me at my last game's seventh-inning stretch, "do you think the Bicentennial banner would seem okay...
...voted to expel Smithies, but they allowed him to speak first. "It was rather reassuring, in a way," he said, but the occupiers evidently weren't sympathetic--"all I remember just what he said, but the occupiers evidently weren't sympathetic--"all I remember is that it was philosophically weird," one of them said recently...