Word: odd
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...story's odd pacing does not refresh the already-tired plot. The movie either drags through long uneventful sequences or spurts with confusing fast-paced scenes. Jack narrates the film in voice-over and, like that all-too familiar friend who can never quite capture the excitement of a story in its retelling, he manages to bury a potentially interesting tale under unnecessary details and tangents. In addition, the setting is both murky and disconcertingly dark. Medak takes a literal approach to film noir everything is bathed in black. As a result, dialogue and activity are lost in the shadows...
Most of these discreet lovers say the use e-mail to communicate with boyfriends and girlfriends from other places; these aficionados cite speed as the main advantage over letters and price as the clear benefit over the telephone. For first-years and the odd upperclassperson with a hometown honey, e-mail "rocks their world," according to one student, speaking on condition of anonymity...
...more often the songs are just odd enough to hold your interest, just ordinary enough to succeed in addressing everyday life, and, above all, catchy and well-constructed. This is a CD you could play five times in a row without offending your roommates and without getting even an inch bored with most of the songs; the undulating opening riff of the first song, "This Is Not My Flag," ought to follow you out the door and down the street if you, or your roommates, have any appreciation at all for well-made, unpretentious, unoriginal melody-driven guitar...
...Yalen's letter ("Time to Review Radcliffe," Jan. 21, 1994) is on the mark. It has long seemed odd that Harvard, the Crimson, and Perspective, all vehemently opposed to gender-discrimination as a matter of principle, easily accept it in the case of Radcliffe College. Radcliffe is as adamantly single sex as are, for instance, the final clubs. The pamphlet, Facts About Radcliffe College, 1993-1994, boasts of the advantages offered exclusively to females: "Women are dual citizens of Radcliffe and Harvard...Today, women students have access to all of the resources of Harvard College. They also have access...
...Twenty-odd years ago, legend has it, The Crimson refused to elect one student its president because he failed to support Chairman Mao. Now, a conservative was gaining control of The Crimson's proud liberal editorial policy. It sent shivers down quite a few spines, and the owners of said spines were more than willing to tell...