Word: odd
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Weitzman, a lawyer who represented John DeLorean and, briefly, O.J. Simpson, was an odd hire, considering his absolute lack of corporate experience. Weitzman says he left because the job became too administrative. "Steering a glacier," he says, "is not easy." Platt was ousted because he clashed with studio chairman Casey Silver. It was Silver, not Platt, who approved a slew of underperforming films, such as the Bruce Willis-Richard Gere vehicle The Jackal and the political dud Primary Colors. Silver, whose contract has been renewed, says he can turn the studio around: "We have excellent product in the pipeline...
When he finally finishes, a young woman named Ali mentions that it did strike her as odd that at the clubs she visited, every presentation had been led by a man. I ask whether this is a source for concern for her. But she says that, at least for now, she's willing to shrug off the disparity as the product of random chance...
...Crace's Quarantine (Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 243 pages; $23) novelizes the Temptations of Christ, adding a plot bubbling with sin and a supporting cast of odd pilgrims. Crace, a British journalist turned novelist (The Gift of Stones, Continent), is not the first writer to take fictional liberties with Scripture. He won't be the last. But his new effort proves to be one of the more successful reimaginings. Readers and critics in Britain thought so: when Quarantine was published there last year, it was short-listed for the Booker Prize and won the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award...
...with...Talk Show. Well, he's back, with his own album, 12 Bar Blues, the joke being that the album is nothing like 12 bar blues, ha-ha. Let the record run through your CD player once, and the first word most likely to jump into your head is...odd...
...Young Ladies at Home by Miss Catherine E. Beecher, adds a deliciously straight-faced irony to Lidie's own rather un-ladylike story. In addition, a mini-title that summarizes that page's subject in about five words or less is found at the top of every odd-numbered page, adding even more to the book's vividly antique feel...