As we wrapped “Weird Words” for 2024, your local vocab-lover focused on oddball terms starting and ending with the letter X. (This was an effort to finish out the Xmas theme that suffused our issues throughout December.) So it seems logical to follow that with sets of words employing Y and Z — either at
This week, Webb’s “Weird Words” takes a break from its series involving X, Y and Z; indeed, rather than looking at the end of our alphabet, we will honor the beginning of something else: namely, Donald J. Trump’s forthcoming inauguration — which marks only the second time a U.S. president has served two nonconsecutive terms.
Robert Eggers’s new Nosferatu might have been a masterpiece if it weren’t quite so long. Or so gross. Or so sexually explicit. That’s three strikes, I guess. And in terms of being “out,” I came perilously close to exiting the theater after one horrific scene with a harmless, hapless (and eventually headless) pigeon. Why must
“Up the chimney he rose!” Despite poor reviews and lukewarm receipts, don’t be surprised if Red One quietly climbs “to the top of the wall” as a new Christmas classic. Several weeks past, having noted its dismal rating at Rotten Tomatoes — and its slender box-office take — I decided against seeing this new action-comedy.
Scrabble fans know that some of the game’s toughest letters — and thus the ones with highest point value — are J, X, Q and Z. Devotees will likewise acknowledge that of these, X is probably the easiest to use — partly because no less than five two-letter words feature this end-of-the-alphabet item. (J, Q
