Word: weirdness
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...Hovey Kemp, who helped the varsity to victory in San Diego, will be back to warm the number-five seat. Parker had farmed Kemp out to the J.V. for the Brown race, a switch which spurred one bewildered oarsman to say of Parker. "They don't call him ol' Weird Harold for nothing...
...week by Saigon police was silenced for attempting to discuss Montagnard defection to the NLF. Maybe that isn't so; in any case, other reporter haven't discussed the Montagnards much. In general, what the American papers have been best on is not political news of any sort by weird vignettes end horrifying statistics--gruesome descriptions of the refugees' flight and photographs that are almost funny, like the last 'few murders in an Elizabethan tragedy...
...elder league opens its centennial season with hopes of bringing back World Series honors from the mighty nemesis of the American League, the Oakland As. The National League's western division will hold few surprises for enthusiasts of the grand hole game, but the Swami of Swat predicts weird happenings in the eastern race...
...thing is sure: there has never been a movie musical quite like Tommy, a weird, crazy, wonderfully excessive version of The Who's rock opera. Ken Russell is a film maker (Women in Love, The Devils) who glories in the kind of heightened visual absurdity that Tommy both invites and requires. Russell is also among the boldest of contemporary film makers. He fears nothing, including being bad, and he has often been. He is bad occasionally here, but it does not matter, finally. His unceasing visual imagination gives the movie an exhilarating boldness, a rush of real excitement. Tommy...
Meanwhile, the seeds of "romanticism" were being laid within the authoritarian gloire of the Empire. Where did the impulse toward exotic subjects, far travel and weird archaeologies, which would propel Delacroix to Algiers, begin? The show's thesis is that it was fixed in the French imagination by Napoleon's campaigns, especially by the invasion of Egypt. The lure of the crag and the mystery of the Pyramids were Napoleonic properties; and when Hubert Robert, in 1798, took a maypole dance in Arcady and transformed it into a ring of nymphs dancing around an eroded and indecently suggestive...