Word: odd
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...odd--somehow, without meaning to, I keep doing what some consider "male" activities. I'm a government concentrator. I did Model UN in high school. I've done speech and debate since I was 15. I'm a journalist and hope to be one for life...
Every museum that proudly displays a Van Gogh has reason to be nervous. Curators in Amsterdam, preparing a definitive catalog for publication in the year 2001, have concluded that around 50 of the world's 900-odd Van Gogh's, or one in every 230, are forged or misattributed. Among the fakes identified so far: a seascape in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptothek in Copenhagen and a self- portrait in the Austrian National Galley in Vienna...
...century German opera about a Faustian pact with the Devil and turn it over to a composer of hobo rock, a legendary writer from the Beat Generation, and a director who specializes in performance pieces for the art crowd. But don't go away. A pop opera of very odd sorts called The Black Rider is a triumph for its three collaborators, Tom Waits, William S. Burroughs and Robert Wilson...
...always as a paperback original...Our idea was to write quickly and have it have all the excitement of confetti; it shouldn't be some belabored work. A short story is something that does cut into and out of a subject matter that is very serious, like at odd angles. There's a way of sort of breaking through the carapace of expectations...
...outfits in a ridiculous procession a la "Aladdin" 's "Friend Like Me." After ranging from a Russian babushka to Barbra Streisand, he settles down as the matronly, English accented Euphegenia Doubtfire, and the movie's triumph is that Williams is convincing in this role. While it is still rather odd that Miranda experiences deja vu only at the film's outset, and the children never suspect him, the complete transformation that Williams undergoes makes it much easier to suspend disbelief...