Word: weirdness
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...high school freshman, telling her that she was his first girl friend. Says she: "He didn't act like a 21-year-old. He didn't know how to bowl or rollerskate. I don't think he knew how to do anything." Bremer impressed her as "weird" and "childish" by insisting that they talk about her "hang-ups." One hang-up was her refusal to accompany him to pornographic movies. "He really needed some kind of love," she says of their breakup, "but it wasn't going to come from...
...with that beard". I told him I didn't think I would have any problems. He then looked down at my Navy surplus bellbottom trousers and asked me if I had been in the Navy. I answered, "no". Then he said, "Well, why then do you wear those weird clothes...
...KISKO KIWIS. Beach finished 32 minutes behind winner Olavi Suomalainen of Finland and well ahead of author Erich Segal '58. "He's a brave lad. Ben is," said race coordinator Jock Semple. "We've been needin' more of his kind, instead of all those fatsos from C.C. with the weird hats...
...finest cheese." Lost in the big world, Pavlo has adopted army standards and has committed himself to a pathetic struggle to meet them. Fresh from his overwhelming success as the son in the Godfather, Al Pacino gives a performance that can have no equal. "You're weird, Hummel," Kress, the squad bully tells him. "You don't even talk American, you talk Hummel--some god damned foreign language." And Pacino acts his own language, with a nuance and virtuosity that is wonderful...
...weird fusion of modern democracy and Stone Age dogmatism, the 2,446,000 residents of Papua New Guinea were choosing a House of Assembly that will acquire powers of self-government-and possibly full independence from Australia-over the next four years. A reluctant colonial power, Australia inherited Papua from Britain in 1906, and took New Guinea from Germany in World War I, administering it in recent years as a United Nations trustee. The two territories, which together constitute the eastern half of New Guinea island (the rest is the Indonesian province of West Irian), were given a joint name...