Word: odd
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...juxtaposition of scenes. The question is whether or not the cast can sustain the audience's interest long enough to reveal the characters' ultimate connection. Although Karen Murphy puts in considerable effort as Mulgrave's somewhat off-balance secretary, she appears more comfortable in her portrayal of the various odd roles her employer casts her in as part of his live-action biography...
...recent book on verse, Making Your Own Days, and showed him from the start to be a delightful figure, his manner relaxed, forthright, a little absent-minded; his delivery earnest but clever; his lanky form animated in a way that made him seem very much younger than his seventy odd years...
Elvis Costello, angry young punk, might seem an odd sort to collaborate with a composer of sugary and sophisticated pop songs. However, his abilities as a songwriter, even in his early and admirable punk work, tended towards surprising revelations and explorations of the dark sides of love and politics; he even cited Bacharach and David as influences on his post-punk swaggering forays into murky emotions. Like Bacharach, Costello composes music that can quiver like shifting sands, leaning gently into a tremor of eloquence and anguish...
...Record Hospital, the underground rock department at WHRB, plays "very obscure, difficult, weird, odd sounds that, for the most part, Harvard students don't seem to like to listen to," Appel says...
What Dreams May Come is an odd, unsuccessful work. Its subject matter is likely something that could never have been adequately translated to film. Vincent Ward's refusal to provide a fascinating view of the afterlife dooms the film to purgatory. The more basic structural failures and unclear characters place it someplace far worse...