Word: odd
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Citing several examples from her interviews with adolescent girls at elementary and senior high schools, Gilligan noted that the girls "were in some odd relationship with their own knowledge...
...shafts of sunlight come down and in the mountain streams the rainbow trout leap out and their little trout sides catch glimpses of light. Then my father would drop me in the woods and go off. It was a weird, comforting feeling being in the woods. There were odd, mysterious things. That's the kind of world I grew...
...DYLAN: UNDER THE RED SKY (Columbia). "God knows the secrets of your heart," Dylan sings on this enigmatic new bit of introspection and social speculation. "He'll tell 'em to you when you sleep." Well, he's not talking much here, and Bob hangs back a bit too. Odd, edgy and, for all the slick session talent on parade (George Harrison, Elton John), somehow unfinished...
...small but choice show -- only 26 pieces -- of the sculpture of the New York City artist Joel Shapiro, 48, now at the Baltimore Museum of Art, reminds one of what odd twists can come out of supposedly settled styles. Shapiro has always been vaguely connected in peoples' minds with early-1970s New York minimalism. And yet, although his work in some ways coincides with that movement, it has little to do with it. It is idiosyncratic, emotionally concentrated and mostly quite small in scale: everything minimalism...
...expansive view: "People are sick of incumbents. They're absolutely fed up." Howard Schloss, speaking for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, insists that incumbency is still a huge asset. "The ballot box is sending one message, and the theorists another." In fact, the results seem to highlight an odd disjuncture in the American political system: Carney is right about the voters' damn-all- politicia ns resentments, but Schloss appears right about probable outcomes this November...