Throw it out windows, it freaks others out like its a real person.
When the play was first produced, "Reality Bites," Ben Stiller's movie about the disaffected youth of Houston, was a modest hit, outstripped in its freaked-out adolescent mythology (and nostalgia) by Richard Linklater's 1993 hit "Dazed and Confused".
When Ulysse Nardin introduced its Freak watch in 2001, eyebrows were raised at its use of silicon for two escapement wheels instead of the usual steel.
The distributors handling the re-release are marketing the film partly on its freak-show appeal .Roar" ends with a touchingly sincere appeal to save the lions.
More than anything, the contest is a reminder that wonky Washington is capable, at least once a year, of letting its freak flag fly.
But compared with the elections for the upper house of the Diet next month — with its preordained landslide for the ruling party and its freak candidates — the girl band's national contest is not this season's most embarrassing election.
The XV is about as quirky a vehicle as we can expect in this day and age from Subaru, an automaker that once let its freak flag fly unfettered.
Stuart Gregor, a Sydney marketing executive, wrote a 2013 piece published in Adelaide Now that begged Adelaide to embrace its freak side: "Adelaide should give Melbourne the finger and get on with its own thing.
Celebrating its 30th anniversary, the LGBT festival now waves its freak flag in an altered landscape: one where transgender movies are Oscar material and gay people can get married and sing terrible Bond themes just like straight people.
"Every sport has its freaks," says Wiseman, before rolling a strike.
He reveled in its freaks, fakirs, and frauds," McWilliams wrote.
