Gentrification looms over the "freakishness and fun-loving spirit" of the boardwalk.
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As teenagers, we often consume media to affirm we are not alone in our freakishness.
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There's a freakishness to Momo's over-taut skin and bulging eyes, and she's not even moving.
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It helps to start with IVF and AID, which have made the journey from freakishness to familiarity.
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The violent, surreal, often cartoonish scenarios delivered deadpan that draw attention to the freakishness of ordinary life.
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Fall Out Boy: "Sugar We're Goin Down" Who knew antlers could so perfectly express our adolescent feelings of freakishness?
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In all, the emails offer a glimpse into the Clinton campaign as the crucible of control-freakishness you would expect.
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An engineered meat whose freakishness has been soft-pedaled by winky-face marketing and a jolly dude in a chef's hat?
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Ms. Zellweger, whose own appearance in recent years has been the subject of gossipy press, hasn't been transformed into freakishness by bad makeup.
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But only a robust counterculture, a healthy sense of their own freakishness and, yes, a few St. Benedicts will save them if they fall.
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The violent, surreal, often cartoonish scenarios delivered deadpan that draw attention to the freakishness of ordinary life — from writers like Donald Barthelme, Gordon Lish, Ben Marcus.
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But Mr. Roth's play, which doesn't always disguise its cut-and-paste seams, turns out to be about how public freakishness leads its victims to the solace of anesthesia.
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More to the point, though, the people he writes about, here and elsewhere, do often suffer from what "normal" people might think of as one kind of peculiarity (maybe even freakishness) or another.
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"In an era of excessive individualism, our markings and modifications are viewed not as a sign of freakishness or outlier tendencies but as an expression of personal taste," Christine Rosen, a cultural historian, wrote last year in The Hedgehog Review, a journal of cultural criticism.
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Or perhaps idealistic: frustration that the vision of alternative sexuality and romantic escapism presented by the music of Type O, and embodied by Steele, became foregrounded by camp, played for aberrance and freakishness, at the point it met the mainstream—Steele and his fans lined up like specimens beneath the drab lights of a TV studio for coast-to-coast consumption.
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For several years now, Moore has been the energetic and winsome spokesman for a next-generation religious right — one that no longer regards itself as a moral majority, that recognizes that traditional religion in all its forms has become a counterculture in the West and that urges believers to essentially lean into this new dispensation, embracing what Moore has called the "freakishness" of biblical faith in an increasingly post-Christian United States.
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He goes to a quack doctor (James Caan), who calls him a wimp and puts a Band-Aid on the lump. The lump continues to grow, eventually becoming a full-sized arm. While Gus uses Marty's newfound freakishness to impress his morbidly obese girlfriends, a horrified Rosarita breaks up with Marty, and he gets fired from the club where he does his act. Marty is despondent until Gus brings him to see Jackie, who, it turns out, has always dreamed of finding a real three-armed comic.
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It was intensely interesting to watch the freakishness disappear from those queer towering structures in the glory of the right kind of light". He said that the painting which first brought him great success was 1902's Broad Street, New York; in 1903, this painting was honored with the W. T. Evans Award of the New York Watercolor Club. In another interview, he had stated that "one of the points that most strikes me about this view up Broad Street is the dramatic contrast between the old, low type of buildings ... and the great skyscrapers. My pictures are built on these contrasts.
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According to literary review aggregator Literary Hub, the novel received very positive reviews. In Slate, Laura Miller praised the novel, saying, "Moshfegh excels here at setting up an immediately intriguing character and situation, then amplifying the freakishness to the point that some rupture feels inevitable." The Publisher's Weekly review found the book "captivating and disquieting...showcas[ing] Moshfegh's signature mix of provocation and dark humor." Several reviews, including Miller and Publishers Weekly, felt "the novel drags a bit in the middle", though the ending was widely praised, with Miller saying Moshfegh "found a more satisfying way to resolve the plot" in My Year of Rest and Relaxation than in her first novel, Eileen.
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