Word: odd
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Unfortunately, the sorry trend of commercial exploitation of Sept. 11 does not end with the car manufacturers. AT&T now runs a somber advertisement where 20-odd pale blue place names flash up on a white screen, starting with the sites of the three plane crashes and ending up around the world. The slogan “the power to unite is greater than the power to divide” fades away into the AT&T logo. Consumers are clearly supposed to heed the implied message—because Sept. 11 demonstrated the importance of tolerance and multi-culturalism, everyone...
...spider bite. Testing at the CDC lab in Atlanta was delayed for 14 hours after a 1-hr. power failure. Most health-care workers have never seen a case of anthrax, though they are learning what it looks like fast. Many of the national Emergency Response Network's 100-odd public-health labs, flooded with suspicious samples to test, had to learn to do triage: the disease detectives at the CDC were reportedly coaching other labs on how to assess the risks and decide which substances to test first. They also alerted health officials to watch for the signs...
...Greek island so she can find out which one is her father, was an escapist trifle. And the production hardly disguises the frivolousness of what is onstage: the choreography, when it can be deciphered, is unremarkable; the costumes (a mix of disco-glitz and suburban soccer mom, with an odd preponderance of swimwear) are ho-hum; and the cast, headed by Louise Pitre as the free-spirited mom, is short on big names and big voices...
...odd sequence of events in the fourth quarter almost put Harvard’s win in jeopardy...
...best in the second movement “Aria,” his caressing tone working its magic in the acoustical splendor that is Symphony Hall. The fourth-movement “Finale” is Schumann at his most wildly inventive, and Kissin handled the odd transitions and whimsical nature of the movement with apparent ease and enough discipline to keep the sections from falling apart at the seams...