Word: weirdness
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...full time. He went into the "millionaires' group" where they had parties and burned $50 bills as part of their therapy. He later became a group leader, built a cabin in the mountains near by, took occasional acid trips, and wrote in his diary: "This is such a weird place . . Somehow I'm still not dead, although for the first time in my life I've begun to look carefully at the possibility." On Feb. 9, 1971, in a craft shop on the grounds at Esalen, Steve picked up a Hawes .357 Magnum revolver and killed himself...
Such fanciful musings as Feinberg's are hard to refute definitively, especially in view of the proliferation of weird subatomic particles discovered by physics (more than 15 at last count). At least so says Arthur Koestler, the novelist and interpreter of science who once compared Rhine's work favorably with that of Copernicus. In his recent book The Roots of Coincidence, Koestler calls on his considerable skills as a popularizer of modern quantum physics to buttress his beliefs. Matter, he notes, quoting Bertrand Russell, is "a convenient formula for describing what happens where...
Navy got its only score on a weird hit by Teixeira that trickled past Walsh and went unfielded, allowing a run to score. Walsh then struck out Rasmussan to end the game and preserve...
Randy Newman. Randy Newman's a weird dude, what with songs about burning rivers, and fat freaks, and an epic about slavery, as well as Three Dog's own Mama Told Me Not to Come. He's got the warped perspective I've approached, but never duplicated. Forced, to sum him up, I'd say this: If he was my friend, and I had to introduce him to someone, I'd say: This is Randy Newman, one of the five weirdest people I know. His critical (not commercial, by any means) success has to be attributed to his imagination, coupled...
...depression. But Rosso's designs for the Galerie François Premier at Fontainebleau set the court style: the fantastic stucco cartouches, gilding and strapwork; the airless painted space, filled with large twisting bodies based on Michelangelo's figura serpentinata; the strained and tangled poses; the weird color, by turns opulent and acidly dry; the Biblical and classical allegories, recondite to the point of eccentricity. "A courtly art," observed Art Historian André Chastel, "always tends to develop a universe from which nature is absent"-and Mannerism was the courtliest and most artificial of styles. At Fontainebleau...