Word: weirdness
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...weird way, this show exhales as musty and involuntary a breath of vanished time as any revival of neoclassicism. Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup can, once considered an icon of intimidating cool, has become a sort of madeleine. Irrevocably, the cachet of pop has gone, and many of its artifacts now look tenuous. It cannot be long before some enterprising museum (the Metropolitan?) opens a '60s Period Room, to go with its transplanted Louis Quinze paneling and reassembled colonial parlor: a Wesselmann and a Warhol Marilyn on the stainless-steel walls, a coffee table strewn with...
...weird, man. His old man got killed this fall in a car accident; he was in the Army fourteen years himself and got thrown out for doing goofers. Fucked up family, you know. Every one of them had something grotesque happen...
...technique, developed in the late 1930s by Russian Electronics Expert Semyon Kirlian and his wife Valentina, involves introducing a small amount of high-voltage, high-frequency current into the subject and recording the subsequent discharge on photographic film. The result is a photograph showing an "energy body"?a weird aura?around the plant, animal or human part being photographed...
...says. "Sure she talked plenty, she was funny as hell, but she'd shut up about everything personal. Maybe she was ashamed of something, of who she was, maybe. I knew she was rich right from the start. You see lost of them in here, rich kids. She was weird though, gutsy. First time I noticed her was when she takes all this real freak-show type stuff into the dressing room and spends about a half hour in there, and I'm getting ready to go in because for all I know she's shooting up or something...
...Another time she just up and hops on the back of this weird missionary-type freak's motorcycle and takes off for California. She's back in three weeks with a story about how he beat her up and raped her and left her for dead in a motel in the middle of Salt Lake City. After that she said she hated freaks--said they were mean bastards who'd steal you blind if you were stupid and kill you if you gave em' trouble...