Word: odd
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...dyslexia, Braddock had trouble in school. But he thought to himself, Where else can you shoot a fully automatic weapon--legally--and get paid for it? A lengthy conversation ensues about guns (he owns an M1A and wants an AR-10 for hunting) and ends with this odd observation: Iraqis, he says, are more afraid of pistols, which they associate with executions, than automatic weapons...
...true. "Children are just so much better at passing through the veil between the real world and an imaginary one," says McCaughrean, "which can feel just as real and very, very scary." Though she recognizes the brilliance at the heart of Barrie's creation, McCaughrean calls Peter Pan an odd book. "And I most certainly wouldn't have written a sequel to it under any other circumstances," she says, referring to the fact that by 2007, 70 years after the author's death, the copyright on Peter Pan will have lapsed everywhere outside Britain where it enjoys perpetual protection. gosh...
...things Simon might have meant is that the paper’s recruit data are from 1999 and 2003, which I agree is not exactly current. It was the most current data we could get from the Pentagon when the study was initiated. But this would be an odd complaint for Simon to make, since he only cites median income data on the 1999 cohort, and neglects to mention that by 2003 average real family incomes of recruits had risen by $1,700, above the national median rather than below. The stunning finding in my mind is not the canard...
...still-life groups simply delight in their play of form (the rising and falling rhythm of Breath, 2000) and color (the enlightening journey of Fade, 2003). Her groups, which the artist keeps carefully documented in photographs, are growing. In 2004, for instance, Hanssen Pigott placed ten trails of 20-odd vessels in a display that curved along a beach in Cornwall, England, with sand, surf and ceramics commingling. Sadly, Caravan hasn't made it into the present show, but The Beatles have. Which is in the end perhaps appropriate, for these chamber pieces of perfection, together and alone, inspire...
...slept in one room. The five girls slept in another. The eight boys slept in the third. Out back, just past where the refrigerator now stands, was a large pen that held up to 70 pigs. Besides tending the pigs, Lucila's husband grew corn and beans and did odd jobs as a tailor. Lucila taught knitting classes at her house to help the family scrape...