Word: odd
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Although the Norwegian pavilion was not cheap (about $15 million), its very temporariness gave license to the designers to make it strange and wonderful, the perfect folly. But something is odd about the pavilions at this exposition: unlike the unmistakably fake, giddily impermanent stage-set structures of previous world's fairs, these seem curiously normal, like buildings one might encounter in Miami or a well-to-do Arizona suburb. Over $ the past decade or two, as stylistic jags and economics have made buildings in the real world flimsier, zanier and culturally mongrelized, real-world architecture has pretty much converged with...
This is a perfectly normal morning math class for 31 seven- and eight-year- olds in a room filled with typical Japanese elementary school wall charts. The only odd thing is, it's not in Tokyo. It's in Great Falls, Va., just outside Washington, and all of the children are American...
...dream up what for some are odd pas de deux, but this postmodern master maintains his allegiance to such old-fashioned values as form and narrative. "I am very, very strict structurally," he says. "You can break any rule you want, but you have to have a clue about what the rules are." Morris makes up full-bodied dances that celebrate the pure joy of movement, usually spiked with an irreverent wit. "The knee-jerk response is to assume that a lot of what I do is parody or sarcastic when it actually isn't," he observes. "I'm interested...
Berkery gave two reasons for the odd occurrence...
...cities. But earlier this month, hundreds of terrified lunchtime pedestrians rushed for cover as four armed jewelry- store robbers opened fire to make their getaway with $1.3 million worth of gold and gems. Although two suspects were nabbed, the heist was one of the more spectacular of the 100-odd armed robberies committed in Hong Kong this year...