Word: odd
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...Issuing the report] is an opportunity to stimulate dialogue,” McKean said. “It seems quite odd to me to stimulate dialogue when the majority of the campus is on break...
...Cambridge Public Schools Controlled Choice Plan. This initiative, introduced on Nov. 30 by Superintendent of Schools Bobbie J. D’Alessandro, would include socioeconomic status as one of a number of factors when assigning Cambridge children to the city’s public elementary schools. In an odd turn of events, Tuesday’s vote was postponed, as not all committee members were present. We hope that the committee will soon be able to assemble its members and pass the measure to break down socioeconomic divisions among Cambridge’s elementary schools...
...December 25 Here’s an odd couple: Will Smith and Michael Mann, the filmmaker whose seriously heavy hand has a tendency to violently beat the intellect of audiences. “Forget what you think you know,” the tagline for Ali, seems to be the line for Mann’s career, which includes The Last of the Mohicans and the brilliant Insider. This time around, Mann tackles the controversial life of boxer Muhammad Ali (Smith) in a biopic that covers the decade from the 1964 championship to the “Rumble...
...different forms of love and their manifestation in sexual and emotional relationships. The stories themselves are, for the most part, fast-paced and free of practically any form of superfluous exposition, which is possibly the collection’s greatest strength. Schlink proves himself completely in command of the odd situations he creates by sparing his readers lengthy descriptions and unnecessary details. This, combined with Schlink’s wonderfully off-beat characters, makes Flights a truly worthy collection. Some of the stories are better than others, however, and Schlink is most successful when he is conscious of his ability...
...with a playful awareness. He almost winks at the reader through the page with his treatment of Thomas as a naive prisoner of lust. Eventually though, Thomas seeks escape from both of his lives. He begins a sexual relationship with a much younger woman named Helga, furthering complicating his odd situation...