Word: odd
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Until recently, however, neither director had much visibility outside film- festival circles. Burnett, who supported his family and his film projects with foundation grants and odd jobs, couldn't even find a commercial distributor for his work. Now both are beginning to shake off the hothouse stigma. Lane, 37, is making his big-budget debut in August with True Identity, a $16 million comedy about a black man forced to pass for white in order to evade Mafia hit men. Although he had to ask for changes that would make the movie less offensive to blacks, Lane admits...
Chun entered this political crucible eagerly. He drew cartoons dripping with political sarcasm for the school paper. One showed George Bush in military fatigues waving an American flag while marching over a field of skulls. With no money from home, he worked at odd jobs and slept in a succession of offices and friends' apartments. But his real vocation was activism: he was part of a 60-person "torch force" that led demonstrators into battle with police by throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails...
...There is no such thing as exploitation. If you help someone with odd jobs, pocket any pay tendered -- you might earn the equivalent of a year's salary in rubles after just a few days...
...Crimson struggled in the early going against Dartmouth's odd defensive style. The Big Green managed to shut off the Crimson attack, by isolating the man with the ball and forcing Harvard to charge the cage. But with Cavouti--an expert one-on-one attacker and skilled playmaker--missing, Harvard had trouble maintaining possession, turning the ball over repeatedly...
...India. John Babcock, 14, plays her cousin Colin, a sickly boy kept locked away from chill winds and excitement in a room where he frets that he will be transmuted into a hunchback like his father. Mandy Patinkin plays the father, his deformity barely noticeable but his behavior conspicuously odd: he visits his son only when the boy is asleep, a quirk that never makes psychological sense. In the woods -- including the walled enclave of the title, cultivated by Colin's late mother and now closed up by his father -- live country folk who can talk to animals, notably...