Word: odd
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Annaud at first seems an odd choice for director. The variety of landscapes and eras in his Quest for Fire, The Name of the Rose and The Bear suggests he is less an auteur than an explorer. And one with an imperialist bent: he pumps this intimate memoir into a David Lean-size epic. But once Annaud locks his movie in the dark bedroom, he finds metaphors of gesture for convulsive passions; he creates cliff-hanging drama from each shift of the girl's whim...
...Odd thing is, it's not the Richmeister calling him these names. It's the Dartmouth athletic department. Local and national newspapers. And coaches around the Ivy League...
...truly interested in the fairness of the elections, there were other courses of action to pursue. I talked to a member of the executive board of the Undergraduate Council who told me that Roksar had not filed a complaint with the council concerning this matter. Isn't it somewhat odd that someone who is duly concerned about election fairness failed to report any "infraction" to the council--the one organization that could enact reforms to prevent further such occurrences...
...street. Nascent paranoia was restrained as I made a lucky guess and arrived at the famed hostel: a huge, mucky building, with a central quad piled with trash and puke. I cannot forget that night. A constant drone of police cars filtered through the window (accompanied by odd flashing lights), and my roommate--it was a cheap place - who happened to be a fellow Englishman, was wallowing in the later stages of drugged stupor. He had come to New York with a mission to explore its gunky side. In his first week he had been mugged--twice. He spent...
Unfortunately, even these fine performances are undercut by some odd production decisions. Virtually all of the important sequences are accompanied by precious, soap-operaesque music that is totally inappropriate to the gravity of the events. On opening night, the sappy music elicited laughs from the audience during most of the pivotal scenes...