Word: odd
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Contrasting Bridges' cavalier attitude is John Goodman as his bowling buddy Walter, who gets worked up about everything. The Coen brothers get plenty of good comic material out of this pair and thankfully don't overplay the "odd couple" element. Walter is a uniquely funny character too: though he obviously has a good heart, he can't stop his over-the-top rants. "Shomer Shabbas!" he screams, declaring his unwillingness to play an important league bowling game on the Jewish day of rest. Towards the end of the film, Goodman delivers a hilariously irrelevant, insensitive funeral elegy that somehow also...
...what am I saying here? Well Pfoho came, saw and conquered. I promised the boys they would get some play in the Crimson and I provided it. Finally, if you think what is about to happen in the world of basketball is pretty odd, the A-League tournament time can be just as maddening...
College poses this odd, transitory period in which you are allowed to sample the independent life while not yet assuming the full responsibilities of an adult. You do your own laundry, but you don't cook your meals. You manage your bank accounts, but you don't pay the electricity bills. You fit in no other pre-defined age group, and constitute your own class, the college years. This time is a unique opportunity to retain that which was best of our high school days and that which will be best of our postgraduation days...
...ideas in technology often do, with a science-fiction writer. William Gibson, a young expatriate American living in Canada, was wandering past the video arcades on Vancouver's Granville Street when something about the way the players were hunched over their glowing screens struck him as odd. "I could see in the physical intensity of their postures how rapt the kids were," he says. These kids clearly believed in the space the games projected...
ESPN recently launched a new venture in cable television, the Classic Sports Network (CSN). The premise of CSN seems strikingly odd: it merely rebroadcasts old sporting events. Nonetheless, CSN has met considerable market success and many cable packages across the country are busy adding it to their basic package...