Word: odd
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fuss? This is a Jamesian question, one James herself, dressed in a red print dress and square-heeled shoes, seventy-odd years old, sensible British citizen, might see fit to ask. Even she, however, in the thirty years since her first mystery was published, has come to expect the commotion, and she knows how to please her fans. Clever, articulate and often drily hilarious, she obviously delighted in her audience. A week later, in a phone interview form Dallas with a Crimson reporter, she sounded tired (unsurprisingly, caught up in a whirl-wind tour), but responded thoughtfully to what must...
...back on the T, some odd looking characters asked us if we were wrestlers," Tudor said...
...sense that council members are spawned in a culture of backstabbing and almost surreal stupidity. President Liston, in an attempt to qualify himself during campaign, boasted that the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) Guide's average difficulty level of his spring term courses would be 2.1. It seems odd that "I'm not doing any work in class" has become a selling point for public office. Further, the efforts to establish a more direct link to students--like Liston's murder of a small forest and salesman-like visitations to every undergraduate room on campus to deliver a position paper...
...TIME WHEN BROADWAY CAN'T lure even Neil Simon back for a return engagement (America's most popular playwright will have his next work produced off-Broadway), it may seem odd to find it putting out the welcome mat for Moliere. Yet the adventurous Roundabout Theatre Company has resurrected two one-act plays by the 17th century French master, dubbed them The Moliere Comedies and fashioned a sprightly, entertaining evening. These are slight, early works by the author of Tartuffe and The Misanthrope, but in a fallow Broadway season, Moliere Lite is better than nothing...
Thesis-writing seniors are also characterized by an odd communicative impediment. Although at times they may appear to be normal, any effort on the part of other students to start a conversation will cause them to start speaking in academic tongues...