Word: odd
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this film is the film-making itself. He is stretching the boundaries of where the techniques of film-making has been taken. He employs unusual lighting, off-kilter camera angles, animation and special computer effects which distort the stills. He uses clips from old films one after another in odd places: westerns outside hotel windows, horror flicks making up the horizon where they drive. In the hands of a more skillful story teller, Stone's visual talent could reinforce instead of detracting from the point being made. Unfortunately, though, Stone seems too arrogant to allow his voice to be hampered...
Meanwhile, the fat-cat dollar was gallivanting about the bond and stock markets, having an enriching experience. This the average bankroll couldn't do: bonds came in large denominations; bond funds didn't exist. Stocks bought in small quantities were called odd lots, like they were some kind of defective merchandise. The odd-lotters were mystified by stocks, and with good reason: the brokerage houses informed their big clients about every important development, but the small clients were the last to know...
...been possible and less odd for me to inquire about people's lives and see them as whole people," Marshall said...
...TIME Daily the deals are fraught with problems. Government regulations, for instance, may prohibit Time Warner from owning a TV network while it also dominates some cable markets. Time Warner is the number two cable provider in the U.S. And Disney, with its children-oriented shows, would be an odd fit with CBS, which has an older viewership. "This is a period of conversation at every level among every company," said one analyst. "No one knows how this information superhighway stuff is going to work...
...more salt and a lot less sappiness than there is in the current hit movie. Hearing Stephen King read the beautifully modulated opening chapter of Needful Things is almost enough to convince you to stick around for the rest of the 24-hour tape. Almost but not quite: one odd aspect of the audio-book market is that King, perhaps the contemporary author who could most benefit from trimming, is the one whose books are never abridged...