Word: weirdness
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...this style of her own; she has never had to copy anybody," says her approving mother. British Photographer David Bailey, whose early pictures of Jean Shrimpton helped launch her career and who recently shot Penelope for London's Sunday Mirror, concurs. "She's really weird," he says, "almost a caricature of a model. She is a completely original-looking girl, and that is such a nice shock these days...
...Andrew Sinclair. A weird, often wildly wonderful parable about a giant who makes a pilgrimage through history in search of himself...
They have transformed themselves from a "live" performing team to an experimental laboratory group, and they have staked out the recording studio as their own electronic rumpus room. To achieve the weird effects on Sgt. Pepper, they spent as much as 20 hours on a song, often working through the night. The startling crescendo in A Day in the Life illustrates their bold, erratic, but strikingly successful method. Says Paul: "Once we'd written the main bit of the music, we thought, now look, there's a little gap there; and we said oh, how about an orchestra...
...Mounted on a simple wooden frame, the 15-by 19-in. manuscript bears 926 ancient Chinese characters in two blocks, surrounded by sixteen paintings of trees and weird mythological creatures. Dr. Jao Tsung-yi, professor of Chinese at the University of Hong Kong, believes it is "the most valuable find in the history of Chinese archaeology." His reasons: the Ch'u Silk Manuscript is the earliest and largest of its kind, and the larger the manuscript the easier it is to decipher unknown characters in context with known characters. In addition, says Dr. Jao, "it is a very important...
...GAME, by Julio Cortazar. This Argentine author thinks only the unthinkable and imagines the weird and the baffling. These 15 stories, one of which was made into the movie Blow-Up, alternately amaze and appall the reader...