Word: odd
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Last Wednesday night, 50-some-odd students crowded into the over-heated basement room known as the Loeb Dance Studio, located directly under the Ex Theater. Sitting on chairs, over-sized props and theater scenery, or often even on the floor, student thespians spent an intense two hours debating the merits of various candidates. By night’s end, the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) had elected the nine members of its executive board for the coming year...
...slap him when he came forward at me,” Decker said. “It was all a defensive measure. It is very odd that Harvard would employ someone who uses physical violence on their alums...
...ending seems to cast Troy in a sympathetic light, an odd shift from the pervasive anti-Troy sentiment of the rest of the movie. Maybe the directors themselves do not know what to feel about their ex-friend. But after watching one-and-a-half hours of Troy’s greedy hoarding and inevitable self-destruction, one hopes that the directors’ finale is an attempt at rising above vengeance and mercenary exploitation. But maybe it’s not, and they simply retained more of Hollywood than they realized...
This is an odd book. Much of it consists of gorgeous, very precise descriptions of the hideous misfortunes that befall the people who surround Ella and Franco. They suffer diphtheria, syphilis, scalding, torture, drowning, stabbing, smallpox, gunfire and, in a couple of instances, grisly botched amputations. None of that bothers Ella and Franco much. They are like cruel children: dreamy, whimsical, pleasure loving, utterly lacking in remorse or the kind of inward reflection one hopes for from characters in novels. In one scene Franco viciously whips a dog because it resembles a dog that bit him when he was little...
...early experience when The Professional came out. I'm really proud of the film, but it was strange for me to be looked at as a sexual object when I was 12," she says. So she did such movies as Mars Attacks, Star Wars, Cold Mountain and, in an odd move for someone avoiding being Lolita-ized, a Woody Allen film (Everyone Says I Love You). But she felt she was ready to entrust Nichols with presenting a more sexual character in Closer. "I wanted to be able to form my own sexual identity. If other people have...