What is arguably the Kinks' finest album, 1971's Muswell Hillbillies, is passed over as "bizarre", and their 80s output – a nest of curate's eggs – passes in a prosaic blur.
And yet most self-styled "defenders of western freedom" studiously try and avoid making parallels between the traditional anti-semitic narratives: that Jews were taking over; followed bizarre cultural practices; thought they were "the chosen ones"; or were simply a fifth column with outside allegiances, to the narratives that we see bandied about today along the same lines about British Muslims.
All television and radio stations in Thailand, including foreign channels such as the BBC and CNN, had been off-air, resulting, in some circumstances, in endlessly repeated scenes of Prayuth declaring the military coup, played over and over in bizarre loops.
12.36pm BST 5th over: Australia 36-0 (Finch 15 Warner 20) What a bizarre over!
After two decades of socialist rule, the region's government was last year taken over by a bizarre alliance between the conservative People's party of Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy and the communist-led United Left.
In "The Smoker" (previously published in The New Yorker), a lonely young English teacher is invited over for a bizarre, family-assisted seduction by a student who combines the coltish looks of Mariel Hemingway in "Manhattan" and the wise innocence of Phoebe Caulfield in "The Catcher in the Rye".
In this episode, The Lone Gunmen summon Mulder and Scully to the headquarters of a video game design company after a new virtual reality game, which the Gunmen helped design, is taken over by a bizarre female computer character whose power is much more than virtual.
Zuk waxes exuberant over the bizarre things insects do to get ahead.
We pour over my bizarre image references, a borderline prophetic font book and some actual jewelry.
Veteran defender Michael Johnson faces a nervous wait after being charged by police with assault over a bizarre incident that occurred in a kebab shop in November.
