Word: odd
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They were all once teenagers with a penchant for the gothic. But this preppy thing is simply odd. At the very least, there is a bit too much winking at the camera for my puritanical tastes...
...This holiday season, though, Rio's organized crime proved me wrong. In the early hours of Dec. 28, the drug gangs that control most of Rio's 600-odd favelas, or shantytowns, launched a coordinated series of attacks across the famously beautiful city. In the most horrific incident, thugs torched an interstate bus with the passengers still on it, burning eight people alive. It was an unmistakeable message to authorities on the eve of new governor Sergio Cabral's swearing-in: we will not sit back and let you curtail the cocaine and marijuana dealings that bring us millions...
...Which sets me to thinking about another virtuosa vocalist. Isn't it odd, and sad, that k.d. lang - the supreme lyric reader of our time, the modern singer without rival at making sentiment sound like world-weary wisdom - hasn't done a Christmas album? That would be a lovely present under next year's tree...
...Then the Donald stepped in. To this girl gone wild, he offered that great American gratuity - a second chance. He was in a position to do so, because he owns the Miss USA franchise. An odd thing to own, I would have thought, especially if you're a married man and therefore do not need to meet girls. "Where are these hotspots?" I asked my wife, perhaps in what she leapt to conclude was a wistful tone, for her answer was, "I notice she hasn't been showing up around here...
...affections avuncular? Yes, he does - though he's not uninterested in peering through the transom when she sheds her clothes at the life-drawing class. Is O'Toole - skinny, tottering, eccentric in everything from costume to line-readings - wonderful in this role? Indeed he is. Always more of an odd duck than a leading man, age (he's 74) has given him license to play his essential weirdness and it precludes us from feeling the slightest bit sorry for him as illness chips away at - but never conquers - his bonhomie. It just sort of happens to him, and Venus just...