Word: odd
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...Notwist use odd instruments such as the zarb, cachon and canjira along with the more conventional guitar, keyboards and strings. The result is the strange noises and beguiling whisps of sound that are as alluring as they are unfamiliar...
...band names go, “The Prom” is a pretty odd choice. In terms of music, the prom recalls cheesy disco compilations and the tasteless dance remixes. Memories of calamities like “The Electric Slide,” “YMCA” and Britney’s first big hit, once repressed, emerge from dark, hidden recesses...
...Harvard win, when Vermont rallied from a 3-0 deficit to make the score 3-2 with two minutes to go in the game. The Catamounts had numerous chances to tie the game, and their open style of playing allowing them to get a half-dozen odd-man breaks that led to quality shots on Grumet-Morris...
...odd day, Beren Hall is a place of pious worship and the site of daily prayer services. But for the auction, seats were arranged fashion-show style around a central catwalk. As approximately 100 undergraduates arrived to bid on the sexy dates-for-sale, the expectant crowd transformed the hall’s atmosphere of religious reverence into a (kosher) meat market...
...which I placed an alligator-on-a-stick circus toy. When the mailman failed to deliver any letters for me, the alligator, whose jaws were operated by a handle at the other end of the stick, would simply bite him. Needless to say, my presentation drew some nervous laughs, odd stares and sympathy for the mailman. Looking back, I see it was the first instance in which I was clearly out of step with my peers in the arena of technology. While they were enjoying their first forays into gadgetry and programming (albeit in an arts-and-crafts forum...