Word: odd
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...polished, left-leaning Blair and the rough-hewn, conservative Bush are an odd couple, but the chemistry in their relationship "is just as good as with Clinton," says one Whitehall official. A senior Bush aide agrees. "Blair's not a Eurowimp. He's not ponderous, hand-wringing and he doesn't lecture. He gets to the bottom line and that's Bush's cup of tea." The President recently wrote Blair a note saying, "I like your style." They use each other as sounding boards, they chew things over, and they disagree - though Downing St. is exceedingly disciplined about...
Maine’s excellent passing and team speed turned several Harvard turnovers into odd-man rushes, but Grumet-Morris stopped the majority of them, especially in the first period when he turned back 14 shots. That effort kept the Crimson in the game long enough to give Maine a scare...
...problem role should be Susie, J.J.'s 19-year-old "screwball sister." (Odd, since J.J. is at least twice as old; why couldn't she have been made his daughter?) She's kooky and vulnerable, always looking as if she's just been slapped or thinks she's about to be. When she questions Sidney's "friendship" with J.J. - "Who could love a man who makes you jump through burning hoops like a trained poodle?" - she might be speaking to herself. And her boyfriend is just too square to compute as a 50s jazz musician. (What's he got that...
...honest, I really don’t like Steven Spielberg. He’s simplistic, condescending and, the odd for-the-ages shot aside, he isn’t a very original or intelligent director. Even at age nine, I had my suspicions about Hook’s ghastliness, and I haven’t been encouraged recently by his frustratingly derivative war movie Saving Private Ryan and godawful sequel to the so-so Jurassic Park. Over at his five-year-old production company Dreamworks SKG, Spielberg has encouraged the production of some of the more overrated studio films...
Maine’s excellent passing and team speed turned several Harvard turnovers into odd-man rushes, but Grumet-Morris stopped the majority of them, especially in the first period when he turned back 14 shots. That effort kept the Crimson in the game long enough to give Maine a scare...