Word: odd
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...developer, has a child in the northern suburb of Evanston and a sleek, sophisticated wife who works as a professional model and periodically arranges to meet him in hotels for ritualized bouts of fantasy sex. Still, Parker wants more. He puts personal ads in local papers, and bears an odd grudge against the women who respond. One night, during one of these assignations, he does something so horrible that he cannot bear to remember...
What then? That is the disruptive inquiry hovering over all these stories. Ronald Reagan back in the White House in 1992? A man who claims to have been an astronaut, even though it is clear he is lying? As he has been doing for some 30 years, Ballard turns odd questions into inspired narratives...
...this style is Tsumago Children, In which the extreme focus of the background makes it appear entirely flat. Thus the position of the young girl is disquieting--she seems suspended in an awkward pose above the boy. The bent pipe which runs the length of this picture and the odd stance of the boy heighten the uncomfortable depiction of an impossible space...
...Salvucci vehemently insists that his goals have never swerved during his 20-odd years of government service...
...quotations from the Marquis de Sade delivered in a breathless whisper? Only the most popular dance music in Europe. Sadeness is currently a No. 1 hit in 13 countries and is stealing the show at cutting-edge discos in the U.S. Romanian-born producer Michael Cretu calls his odd creation Enigma music. Cretu claims the ancient music of the Catholic Church -- "a rather mysterious and absolutely paradoxical club" -- provides the perfect companion to De Sade's sensualist prose...