Word: odd
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...Winter Games, in any case, have always been the Cinderella Games, the odd Games out; a poor sister, it sometimes seems, to the sun-splashed dazzle of the Summer Games. Barcelona this year has Gaudi, Miro, Isozaki; Albertville has mostly an industrial town that sounds as if it were named after the Crown Prince of Monaco (a member of the Monegasque bobsled team). The Winter Games are chill, Nordic, taciturn -- redolent of Ingmar Bergman and dark Decembers. Instead of sprints and dives, they offer double Axels (not what you find on the bottom of your Peugeot) and luges (which...
Everyone laughed and cringed during the Calgary Games when Britain's "Eddie the Eagle" Edwards jumped with his skis in a V configuration -- among other odd angles. His unpolished "style" was in stark contrast to the controlled flights of other jumpers, who kept their skis tightly parallel. Edwards finished dead last, but he may have been on to something. This year some of the best jumpers on the hills at Courchevel will be flying with their skis forming an ungainly but aerodynamic V shape. As innovator Jan Boklov, a Swede, has demonstrated, jumping in this manner improves lift...
...rehab project for fight manager Cus D'Amato. Tyson can't be convicted for the role he plays or the work he chooses. And in the half of his life devoted to boxing, he has attracted mentors, sportswriters and, yes, Givens with evidence of softness, hints of heart: the odd fluty pitch of his voice, the stabs at elaborate rhetoric, even his love for pigeons -- a fancy he shared with another damaged boxing hero, the Marlon Brando coulda-been contender in On the Waterfront. It was Tyson's mention of the pigeons that briefly beguiled Miss Rhode Island, she testified...
...years after 1945, Japan and the U.S. became the odd couple of the free world, the brilliant parvenus. They collaborated -- victor and vanquished, senior genius of industry and eager, hardworking apprentice. America sponsored Japan almost ex nihilo, out of the ashes, became its protector and ultimately its best, most lucrative customer. The Japanese stood in grateful awe of all things American and overlaid their ancient culture with a new layer mockingly like that of their sponsors. The Japanese sent back to their benefactors a steady stream of goods, tinny toys in the early years, then better stuff. Much better stuff...
...president did say that the idea of students taking legal action against colleges for failing to teach certain Afrocentric theories--which Jeffries suggested in his speech Wednesday night--was "very odd" and would put a check on academic freedom...