Word: odd
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Wilson, avant-garde theater person that he is, has done some pretty odd work himself. And Waits, respected musician that he is, has over the years branched out into acting (the lunatic in Bram Stoker's "Dracula," Lily Tomlin's husband in "Short Cuts," and lots of roles in assorted Jim Jarmusch movies) and soundtracking (again with Jarmusch, most recently composing the music for "Night On Earth"), but he has never attempted anything on this scale. So, whatta we got...Tom Waits collaborating with Wilson and writing music for a German orchestra...throw in William S. Burroughs singing...
...your father is a murderer, are you? This is the odd question posed in "Flesh and Bone," an disturbing and perplexing movie about one man's unusual struggle to rid himself of his father's blood...
...judges were asked to evaluate, on a scale of one to 15, the performance of musician, mathematician or a mile runner, they would not be told to omit the numbers 1, 5, 9 and 13. Not only would such an omission be odd, but it would divide what should be a natural continuum of performance into artificial categories...
...odd scenario for an Ivy League game: Win and continue on to the ECAC tournament. Lose and enjoy a lot of time to catch up on homework. Seldom does the long arm of postseason play reach the Ancient Eight, and even more rare is the do-or-die game...
...that the Clinton bill's list of sponsors -- fewer than 50 Democrats in the House and 31 Senators, including a lone Republican, Jim Jeffords of Vermont -- compares unfavorably with the 89 House Democrats sponsoring a bill to institute a single-payer system for the entire country, or the 50-odd bipartisan sponsors of the most popular competing House bill...