Word: weirdness
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This year's seniors, though, are the last undergraduate class to come up under the old system. As one Adams House junior said. "I guess the seniors are sort of weird. They're the last ones to try to keep up the pretensions especially in Adams...
...something from the department you have to go after it. That's true in most departments, I guess. Music, as a department, as something to study, is strange. There's no one method to learning and teaching music. Nothing's complete; nothing's defined. Just the term 'musician' is weird, you know.... Nobody knows what it means. It could mean you know all the plots from operas, you could know all the record jackets...
...Music, as a department, as something to study, is strange. There's no one method to learning and teaching music. Nothing's complete, nothing's defined. Just the term 'musician' is weird, you know...Nobody knows what it means. It could mean you know all the plots from operas, you could know all the record jackets."CrimsonRobin S. Goland...
Perhaps Goldman should have been encouraged to write more gags, create more weird confusions and confrontations between real and fake women. (How about a husband who misses the old-fashioned fights-and the making up? Why not a little less discretion about the sexuality of a grown-up Barbie?) Or perhaps the opposite tack should have been tried. The piece could have been an exercise in pure terror, avoiding overt social comment. The broad early hints about what is going on here would then build realistic suspense...
...less legitimate Cuban hotels and casinos. Along with executives of companies like United Fruit and "U.T.T." he goes to Havana to be honored by El President (whom U.T.T. presents with a solid gold telephone). But Michael's plans fall apart--Roth is really plotting his assassination, and in a weird, near-surrealist climax the Cuban President announces his resignation ("due to the success of the guerilla groups in the Guantanamo and Santiago areas") at his glittering New Year's Eve party. Hordes of men in tuxedos and women in long gowns spill out of the ballroom, down the marble steps...