But the focus of this column is not that wacky August day in Philadelphia 50 years ago.
(Except for "The New Year," a wacky Dec. 31 reckoning by Jimmy Jules).
They were braced for any and every possibility, because the winding, wacky road since Nov. 7 had taught them not to predict the next turn.
But an "overheating" of the Brazilian economy is not one of them.José Gilberto Scandiucci Filho Economic adviser to Brazil's finance minister BrasíliaSIR – The argument that the gold price is far too high for a metal with few industrial uses is a common, and weak, one ("The wacky world of gold", June 4th).
(Sarah Larson Angelaa's Mixtape It's lucky for us that Eisa Davis grew up to be an actor and a playwright (and a singer and a dancer) rather than a radical like her aunt Angela; otherwise we wouldn't have been so thoroughly entertained by her play (presented by New Georges at the Ohio in April), a wacky depiction of growing up an innocent around sixties revolutionaries.
The movie, about an awkward Greek-American waitress who wins the professor of her dreams despite the best intentions of her ostentatiously wacky family, opened in April with the expectation that it might just possibly make as much as $20 million at the box office.
Ribeiro was barely 20 when he played the role of the wealthy, snooty cousin to Will Smith, eventually becoming synonymous with his characters' classic preppy sweaters and -- who could forget -- the wacky "Carlton Dance". In July, Ribeiro told Parade magazine that he wasn't above breaking out his trademark dance moves on occasion.
May the wonderful, wacky ball pit in Trey McIntyre's new ballet remain his alone, an inimitable choreographic device that in his hands produces pure joy.
Having crashlanded the plane in a cornfield with a certain type of sang-froid equidistantly poised between Cary Grant and Leslie Nielsen, Roy takes June on a wacky thrill-ride of evasive action.
I've got a five-spot that says the preceding turn up on someone's wacky-law list within the month.
