Word: odd
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Before all 11 victims in the 1997 film Scream 2 have been gored, shot or hacked to death, there's an odd bit of dialogue. A roomful of young Hollywood hotties--playing a roomful of Midwestern college hotties--debate whether film violence causes real violence. "It's directly responsible," says the student played by Josh Jackson (Pacey on Dawson's Creek). "That's so Moral Majority," sneers Cici, the coed played by Sarah Michelle Gellar (a.k.a. Buffy the Vampire Slayer...
...handful of unkempt longhairs are hard at work over some odd machines in a crowded garage when a man in a suit walks in out of the California sunshine to offer them a big, fat pile of cash. The group's leader takes offense at this gauche tender of venture capital; Apple Computer's mission, Steve Jobs explains, is "practically spiritual." And then he takes the money...
...odd that they weren't. He was an engaging combination of sass and sweetness and naivete. His girlfriend disclosed that the first time he was kissed, he fainted. Merriment always seemed to be bubbling just below the surface, even when the topics were somber. When reporters asked about his affiliation with Islam, he joked that he was going to have four wives: one to shine his shoes, one to feed him grapes, one to rub oil on his muscles and one named Peaches. In his boyhood he was ever the prankster and the practical joker. His idea...
...slower-footed, sari-clad young Indian nuns. We thought her a freak. Probably we'd picked up on unvoiced opinions of our Loreto nuns. We weren't quite sure what an Albanian was except that she wasn't as fully European as our Irish nuns. Or perhaps she seemed odd to us because we had never encountered a nun who wore a sari. There was only one Anglo-Indian nun in our school, and she wore the customary habit. The government had made antimissionary noises but hadn't yet cracked down on missionaries' visa applications...
...Ruggiero also has the stickhandling and speed to lead her teammates down the ice for an odd-man rush. Like Botterill, Ruggiero also came through in the clutch...