Word: odd
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...odd kind of charisma," Bates said,"not the kind of charisma that fills the room, buta quiet charisma...
...been an odd spectacle for those who expected Clinton would be sorry enough that he'd been caught to be sorry enough to be contrite. The Speech That Would Put This All Behind Us failed by not putting an apology in front of us. And he knew it. As disappointment poured in--not just from the media elite but from his supporters--an expanded apology, although not another speech, was a possibility. The press went on red alert, hoping to cover a full Jimmy Swaggart. But when the vacationing President chose to mention forgiveness--in a chapel, no less...
...eccentric comedian ANDY KAUFMAN? "He's extraordinary," says Carol Kane, who plays herself in the film. Rumor has it that Carrey has asked for two trailers on the set, one for when he's playing Kaufman and one for when he's playing Kaufman's alter ego, Tony Clifton. Odd as this is, it's nothing on Kaufman. Apparently, when Kaufman was in character as the lizardly Clifton, he would eat food like red meat that the comic, who was a vegetarian, wouldn't normally touch. After such binges, Kaufman would occasionally eat a length of cheesecloth to purge himself...
...long as possible. Right now, you won't be seen as strange if you sidle up to a random first-year in Annenberg over lunch and strike up a conversation. But naturally, at some point--in our experience, after six to eight weeks--that will become a bit odd. You'll have your friends, maybe even your table, and those new meetings will become all too rare...
Driving out of South Orange, it's hard not to think of Hill's odd craving metaphorically. It's a creative time in hip-hop history, a pregnant time; there's a hunger for music that is out of the ordinary, that breaks boundaries. You think of a line from one of Hill's songs: "I treat this like my thesis/ Well-written topic/ Broken down into pieces." You slip Miseducation into your CD player. "Now some might mistake this for just a simple song...