Word: odd
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...point in Identity, a young woman played by Clea Duvall comments that the situation of the movie’s ten central characters is oddly reminiscent of a movie where ten strangers are all on an island, realize they have some strange connection and then start dying one by one. She is referring, of course, to …And Then There Were None, based on the classic Agatha Christie novel. It’s doubtful that a twenty-something would be familiar with any of the book’s three film adaptations, all which were made before...
...confronting the crises of middle age. The Asian American Association Players presents Philip K. Gotanda’s play about Harry Kitamura, a successful law professor, who finds his life and marriage unraveling when he researches a paper on his involvement in the 1970’s campus strike. Odd characters with violent and sexual impulses begin to invade his dreams, spilling over into his waking life so that he can no longer tell the two worlds apart. A wildly fantastic ride into obsession and revelation. Thursday, May 1, 8 p.m. Tickets $5, $4 students, $4 seniors, $3 Adams House...
...clear, I’ll leave the issue itself up to Alan Dershowitz; I want simply to offer some thoughts on Harvard’s biggest divestment exponents. When I first began to follow The Crimson’s divestment coverage, a couple of things struck me as odd: first, the movement’s most ardent supporters at Harvard are neither Jewish nor Arab and, second, almost none of them seems to have a direct academic interest in that part of the world or its politics—many are members of Harvard’s Psychology, Classics...
...early teens are a difficult stage in life. “I felt like Anastasia was very similar to me,” Cameron says. “She was going through an awkward phase and I felt like that too, but she was also so quirky and odd and upbeat and I could also identify with that...
...behemoth like Harvard, change happens slowly, and tradition—in this case, a 300-odd year history of male power—has a strong pull...