Bizarrely, a huge bust of Saddam dominates his gold-curtained living-room.
The New York we encountered offered a host of new things: A.T.M.'s in every cranny, E-ZPass, bizarrely safer streets, huge bookstores that sold CD's, huge CD stores that sold books, and coffee bars in all of them.
(Bizarrely, though, the huge, hyper-modern conference centre was overlooked by what resembled a medieval European castle).
Six of the women wore black-and-white gowns, against which ribboned point shoes of either shocking pink or vermilion made feet and ankles look bizarrely bright and huge; three other women wore puffball tutus (one black, one white, one scarlet) that seemed keener to disguise than to exhibit their figures.
And, not bizarrely given the price of the huge rooms in my flat and proximity to 24-hour city-wide buses, I got messages.
There is this clinical language that seems totally disconnected from the real experiences of people who are coming on and off these bizarrely named drugs that have a huge impact on their psychological states.
The huge lecture theatre was full of testosterone, bizarrely quiet and sombre.
But the summer after my sophomore year I had a near-death experience, spanning several months, suddenly finding myself bizarrely ill, drastically losing weight, finally, after collapsing in fever, discovering a huge tumor the size of a cantaloupe swelling rapidly with blood inside my spleen.
In any event, Thomas bizarrely manages to create a fake negative story out of what was actually a huge victory for Tesla.
