Word: weirdness
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...with sweat-stained shirts and feet aching we decided to move to the East Side where the John Korty film was playing, in an archetypal art box complete with plants and prints in the lobby and a Film Board of Canada short subject, it was with one of those weird combinations of emotions that occur if climate blends with a state of mind. Disgusted with the academic programs we had been following, with the dogmas of Artforum aesthetes and film school brutalists; confounded by the political considerations overriding all others those days (and by irrational local student reaction to them...
...Hefner (Playboy), and Director Roman Polanski (Knife in the Water) collaborate to make a movie, what will its title be? Macbeth! Shooting is scheduled to start in northern Wales next week with a script by Polanski, Tynan and Shakespeare, and a cast of unknowns, young enough to make the Weird Sisters not too unattractive with their clothes...
...WHITE has a rather strange mind. To a normal eight-year-old, he's just an exceptionally good author. But to someone older, who has never experienced the joy of Charlotte's Web or Stuart Little, he is, as a friend of mine said recently, "very weird." True, spiders don't usually weave slogans such as "Some Pig" into their webs to save pigs from being slaughtered; and human parents don't usually give birth to a son who looks exactly like a mouse. But none of that matters, because they're all very real, endearing characters with real problems...
Aside from an occasional interruption for an "Are you nervous?" interview by a television announcer, the wives of World Series ballplayers are left to their own devices during the games. Those devices, despite strong disavowals of superstition, are varied and weird. Wives whose teams are on winning streaks usually wear the same dress, hat, earrings and rings as long as the charm lasts...
...Hand. Part of the book's weird fascination lies in the problem of just how she will achieve her goal-after all, even today, murderers do not grow on trees. There is also the relentless Spark humor. In the erratic course of her last day, Lise is befriended by two other freaks who provide the author with a pretext to mock the latest fashions in absurdity. The prize example is a young man named Bill who prattles about Yin and Yang and follows a lunatic regimen that calls for three urinations and one orgasm daily...