Word: odd
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Honestly, I don’t think I’m any less odd than the average member of the student body. Considering how much surrealism I’ve encountered, I’m probably more, but I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that. For the most part, Harvard students channel their eccentricities in productive ways. People here are impassioned, adventurous and often willing to do things that aren’t so normal. That’s what makes Harvard amazing...
...maybe there's some hope here. That even killers can lyricize is perhaps a reassurance that behind their battle-narrowed eyes lies a soul. The dreamy pride that Tamil suicide-bomb squad commanders take in their mined and cratered hometowns is at once odd and oddly comforting. It speaks of murderers who can move on, who can see beyond conflict and chaos to a future of peace and picnics. A tranquil Eden is never going to be the first thing that comes to mind when I think of Kashmir. And with an average death toll of 13 people...
...protest and despair. Yet the film can also burst into comic atonalities: the rich man who has a security alarm on his refrigerator (it's where he keeps his money), the shepherd on a cell-phone call to a pal in St. Petersburg. Life is sad; life is odd; life goes...
...awry in Ghana's presidential palace, Bono rushes to adjust it. And the duo gleefully exploit their differences to attract even more attention. The trip was hardly a day old when Bono began taunting the Treasury secretary, a notorious neatnik, to play Oscar to his Felix. "We're the odd couple...
...thought "Spaghetti Western" seemed like an odd pairing, consider this: "Brazilian jiujitsu." The rich and varied culture of Brazil has met the venerable fighting style of Japan--and the result is a burgeoning martial-arts craze in the U.S. Academies that teach Brazilian jiujitsu, rare a few years ago, now number more than 250 nationwide. Renzo and Royler Gracie's Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Theory and Technique is Amazon's No. 1 martial-arts book. And as with any true trend, celebrities are getting in on the act: Nicolas Cage and Ed O'Neill (Married ... With Children's Al Bundy...