Over the last decade David Blaine has become a famous magician with a combination of sleek sleight of hand and equally sharp publicity, using television specials, celebrity friends and bizarre tests of endurance to earn millions of dollars, thousands of fans and more than a few detractors.
In 1978, the year after Crawford died, her estranged and disinherited adopted daughter Christina, a failed actress, produced a venomous portrait, "Mommie Dearest," which alleged both physical abuse and bizarre tests and punishments (Christina's uneaten steak accusingly placed before her for days).
The first one, Shun Akiyama, runs a completely nonprofit loan-shark office as his hobby he likes to put potential clients through bizarre tests to determine whether they just want free money or if they seriously desire to pull themselves out of financial destitution, learn from past mistakes, and fix their lives.
And yet, it's a bizarre litmus test.
We've turned climate science into a bizarre litmus test for conservatism.
It's in this "gap" that W1A's comedy is located, but it's also where many real-life professionals ply their trade, bamboozling the gullible and the desperate with their bewitching neologisms, barmy suggestions and bizarre leadership tests.
"You don't have to look very widely on the Web to see bizarre genetic tests," Francis S. Collins, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, said last month at the biotechnology industry's convention in Washington.
"There was some really bizarre psychometric testing they got me to do," he said.
But it was so cool to go through the interview process and find out about the astronaut program, what they do and all the bizarre medical tests they put you through.
It was a bizarre little dating test, and I ended up married to a guy who still hasn't read the book".
