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Terry Gilliam's satiric film Brazil (1985) veers between pathos and absurdity with its bizarre blend of Orwell's dystopian vision of the future and Kafkaesque elements.

The Free State of Bavaria is the richest part of Germany and the most conservative – a bizarre blend of hi-tech know-how and old-fashioned Alpine kitsch.

But his bizarre blend of populist message and glitzy ways has allowed him to connect with precisely the voters that any Republican candidate needs in order to get elected (including many whom Romney couldn't reach).

This unheralded specialty, a bizarre blend of exquisite technology and deep pathos, is the subject of Edward Humes's sixth book, "Baby ER: The Heroic Doctors and Nurses Who Perform Medicine's Tiniest Miracles".

That Yom Kippur, I felt the bizarre blend of invincibility, because there was a baby growing inside me — and utter, total vulnerability, because there was a baby growing inside me.

Mr. Tsui's television series "The Gold Dagger Romance" was a critical and commercial success that led to his first feature, "The Butterfly Murders" (1979), a bizarre blend of martial arts, mysticism and invented mythology that thrilled local audiences and attracted the attention of Western film festival directors.

A bizarre, beguiling blend of metropolis and market town, the Grand Duchy's compact capital is one of Europe's best-kept secrets.

So, BlackRock can't move capital around based on its assessment of how well companies do at managing long-term value, even though it owns a chunk of every large company and hold assets "on par with Japan's GDP". In essence, the company is a bizarre, oxymoronic blend of unprecedented clout and powerlessness.

PAGE B1 EXISTENTIAL POLITICAL STRANGENESS "The Strangerer" is a bizarre and sometimes whimsical blend of existential philosophy, political satire and absurdism.

Take, for example, Comme des Garçons's first "anti-perfume": Odeur 53, a blend of bizarre notes including oxygen, "flash of metal," mineral carbon, nail polish, cellulose, burnt rubber and "flaming rock".

Galliano has also just introduced a line of men's clothing — a typical blend of the bizarre and the conservative, with suit sleeves that close not with buttons but with the type of hooks and eyes found on bras.