Word: odd
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What ensues is some of the most embarrassingly forced "Odd Couple"-style romantic comedy this side of the Atlantic. The remainder of the plot revolves around two down-and-out angels (played by Delroy Lindo and a wonderfully peppy Holly Hunter) on a mission to unite Celine and Robert in the face of all sorts of adversity, not the least of which is Celine's blood-lusting father...
Kishlansky said he found it odd that there was so little debate resulting from the report...
...single dad. An odd couple--she's the daughter of aging hippies, he's the son of rich conservatives. A wacky alien. An incorruptible prosecutor. Another single dad. A precinct full of hotheaded urban cops. As the new shows suggest, the broadcast networks are not exactly venturing into unexplored territory this season; in fact, they aren't even leaving the hotel. That's neither surprising nor necessarily bad. Lots of successful shows have followed the conventions of the sitcom or the police drama. If a series about a divorced father and his wiseacre kids is truly funny, does anyone care...
...really act? This is an oft debated question to which, as with that of nature vs. nurture, it is hard to give a definitive answer. Despite a career forged in nepotism--90210 is dad's show--Spelling has endured, projecting an odd combination of goofy sincerity and trashy glamour that has also carried a string of popular movies-of-the-week. Is this skill? Or her luck in having an arresting face, pretty yet shovel-like (she cops only to a nose job)? Whatever one thinks of such fare as Mother, May I Sleep with Danger?, her longevity...
...Morgan Stanley building at Times Square," suggests James Grant, editor of Grant's Interest Rate Observer. "There is a continuous electronic display of the most obscure and arcane financial information imaginable, and the crowds on the street look up and don't seem to think there's anything odd or misplaced about it." Ticks, euros, LIBOR, basis points--a new language...