Word: weirdness
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...only one reservation about coming to Munich. The dressing rooms at the swimming stadium are coed, she explains, and have individual dressing stalls, "but the sides are so small that the tall boys can look over." As for life at the Olympic Village, she says: "It's weird but really fantastic...
...splashed across the screen with finger paints, so wildly illogical and improbably elaborate that the props might have been pulled from a giant toy box and the plots from comic books, films like the early Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns or Once Upon a Time in the West exert a weird fascination. It is almost as if Leone not only remembers the fantasies of countless Saturday matinees from his childhood but continually relives them...
...disappear? One may as well ask where all the poodles go when Yorkshires become the fashion. A snowfall on Second Avenue during a college visit is apparently enough to send some girls to the city. Why they stay can be a matter of tortuous rationalization. "I consciously seek out weird and interesting places - gay bars, lesbian bars," says one who has been at it 18 years...
Jones and others have been quietly pondering the antisymmetrical wing for more than two decades, but he hesitated to push for it any sooner. "It was too weird for its time." he explains. Now he feels the time has come. He has already successfully tested small models of the plane in wind tunnels at Ames and sent other models aloft on radio controlled subsonic flights. Building a full-scale prototype would be costly and would undoubtedly involve difficult engineering problems, but NASA apparently shares Jones' enthusiasm for the plane. It recently awarded a contract for studies of the antisymmetric...
...worst elements of Bo Diddley. It's the worst cut the Stones have done in quite some time and is followed by "Ventilator Blues," which is not a whole lot better and bears an uncomfortable resemblance to "Come Together." "Just Wanna See His Face" is an exceedingly weird quasi-spiritual and one of the most distinctive and memorable cuts on the album. The side closes with "Let It Loose," the kind of hard rock ballad (sort of like "You Can't Always Get What You Want") that only the Stones can do really well; Nicky Hopkins repeats the same lovely...