Word: odd
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While Tyler's talents as an actress may still be developing--or debatable, depending on your point of view--it is her presence, her matter-of-fact ease with her sensuality, her odd combination of coltishness and placidity that have turned her into an art-house goddess, an American answer to European actresses like Emmanuelle Beart and Julie Delpy. Her two current films present Tyler as an almost celestial object around whom innumerable admirers revolve. Both Stealing Beauty and director James Mangold's Heavy--which won a Grand Jury prize at the Sundance film festival this year--drop...
...works very smartly. The Simpson-Bruckheimer production duo run clever variations on their macho obsessions (missiles, car chases, gay baiting, the Crimson Tide mutiny plot). Connery and Cage are fine odd-couple buddies--the grizzled lifer and the computer nerd who, even when tossing a live grenade, throws like a girl. This ain't art, exactly. But if you're at the 'plex and need to choose between The Rock and a Cruise place, it's no choice...
...might seem odd that Laitin would choose to compete rather than walk with his social class, but the sailing team member often finds he must choose between competing with Harvard's sailing team and being on its campus...
...team player," says Whisler, who went on to play in the Canadian Football League. "I think he played some odd positions, and when we got ahead, he went in and did the cleanup stuff...
...Everybody was in uniform," says James J. Collins '46, who served in the Navy for a year and a half before receiving an early discharge and graduating in June 1946. "If you weren't, you were a little bit odd. I remember when I got out of the Navy and didn't have a uniform anymore, it was strange...