Word: odd
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Yesterday, for the first time in a long while, I turned on the television in my room. As a program started, some odd letters flashed on the left hand side of the screen: TV-something. What were they, these mysterious letters? A glitch of the emergency operating system? Some odd code to alien spaceships so their attacks could be synchronized? Perhaps even a subliminal message? In fact, the strange message in the corner of my screen was a part of the new system of television ratings...
...current system] is an odd system for averaging grades, where a student with an A and a B+ does worse than two A-'s," said Jeffrey Wolcowitz, assistant dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for undergraduate education. "Really nobody else has the same system...
...Which is odd, given the overwhelming evidence that Ray at the very least had something to do with the shooting: he has admitted purchasing the high-powered rifle that the FBI says was the murder weapon, renting the room from which the shot was allegedly fired and being in Memphis when the killing occurred. Dexter King's credulity suggests the Kings have fallen under the hypnotic spell of William F. Pepper, Ray's current lawyer and the architect of a breathtakingly convoluted conspiracy theory about the assassination. They should step back from the brink...
...look beyond the eccentricities of Marshall Applewhite's creed is not to condone their odd assumptions--any more than one condones by saying, "I don't know how she could marry that spacey pagan." It is simply to acknowledge ignorance. "There is no one alive today," Arnold Toynbee once said, "who knows enough to say with confidence whether one religion has been greater than all others." And though the Heaven's Gaters' doctrine may seem as weird to us as ours apparently seemed to them, the wider tragedy of the cruel suicides would be if our own faith prevented...
...with the hoped-for blend of high, middle and low brow, 42nd Street's caretakers are aiming to re-create the traditional ambiance and uses of 42nd Street in a late-'90s context. Since 42nd Street's traditional ambiance is chaotic, the city and state are in the odd position of planning something that is supposed to appear unplanned. Conundrum or not, they so far seem to have succeeded, despite critics' fears that the block would become an 800-ft.-long Disney World. "This is 42nd Street," Cahan reminds us. "It rains. Big trucks go across it. There...