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  • noun Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic

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2010, Acronym

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Examples

  • Shame THE GOOD THE BAD THE WEIRD is TWO YEARS LATE.

    This Week In Trailers: Bananas!*, Shaolin, Legacy, The Good, The Bad and The Weird, I Know You Know | /Film 2010

  • While Robert E. Howard’s most famous literary creation is the warrior-king Conan, who debuted in WEIRD TALES back in 1932, the pulp-fiction master had more than one great anti-hero in his arsenal.

    Solomon Kane « Isegoria 2007

  • Accompanied by a carbon of short letter from Moskowitz to Leiber, dated 17 June 1964, saying that he has just ghost-edited an anthology for Leo Margulies in which he used Leiber's "Spider Mansion," and that he will be sending him $25 and a copy of the book titled WEIRD TALES.

    Archive 2009-07-01 Chris Perridas 2009

  • Accompanied by a carbon of short letter from Moskowitz to Leiber, dated 17 June 1964, saying that he has just ghost-edited an anthology for Leo Margulies in which he used Leiber's "Spider Mansion," and that he will be sending him $25 and a copy of the book titled WEIRD TALES.

    Antiquarian Weird Tales: Leiber/Moskowitz: 1963 Chris Perridas 2009

  • The big-budget Korean kimchee Western, THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE WEIRD, which is currently getting good reactions at film festivals, looks to be a lot more fun.

    Reviews Too Late: Sukiyaki Western Django Walter Jon Williams 2009

  • KYONETSU NO KISETSU (1960), originally released in America under the exploitative title THE WEIRD LOVEMAKERS, was the directorial debut of the Malaysia-born Koreyoshi Kurahara (1927-2002).

    An Artful Penetration of THE WEIRD LOVEMAKERS 2007

  • KYONETSU NO KISETSU (1960), originally released in America under the exploitative title THE WEIRD LOVEMAKERS, was the directorial debut of the Malaysia-born Koreyoshi Kurahara (1927-2002).

    Archive 2007-07-22 2007

  • THE WEIRD is a collection of six short pulp plays that riff on classic horror movies, urban legends and comic book characters, linked together by themes of trust and the nature of relationships.

    BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content 2010

  • THE WEIRD is a collection of six short pulp plays that riff on classic horror movies, urban legends and comic book characters, linked together by themes of trust and the nature of relationships.

    BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content 2010

  • THE WEIRD is a collection of six short pulp plays that riff on classic horror movies, urban legends and comic book characters, linked together by themes of trust and the nature of relationships.

    BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content 2010

  • WEIRD is the phenomenon that plagues a lot of psychology and other social science studies: Their participants are overwhelming Western, educated, and from industrialized, rich, and democratic countries. They’re WEIRD.

    Social Science is WEIRD, and That’s a Problem. Bethany Brookshire 2013

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