Word: odd
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...expect ?Girl, Interrupted?-level sales." Kirkus is more entertained. "Pithy, funny, adventurous, sexy, and eye-opening...Disguised as plain, brown memoir, a voluptuous exploration of sexuality, aging, the failures of modern medicine, attempts at self-knowledge, and the meaning of pain." The book gives no explanation for the odd title...
...grunt-for-hire, who turns the tables by deeply humiliating her. In one scene, he forces her to wash his underpants for food--and they fall in love! So let's review: in Madonna's video What It Feels Like for a Girl, directed by Guy, she engages in odd, debasing behavior and is killed at the end. In Star, her minimovie for BMW, also directed by Ritchie, she is terrorized and humiliated, soiling her pants. And being married to a director was supposed...
Something odd and transforming generally happens to the public when presented with a story like Levy's. Most people are decent natured when they learn of a terrible event, and their sympathetic attention flies to the person in distress or peril. But open the story to one of sweaty nights between the sheets or to the possibility of murder by a public figure, and the initial rush of sympathy is closed off as if by a valve. Enter, then, the cable-TV experts in somber fantasizing and rampant "scenarios," and a story that caused you to gulp now makes...
...CAFOs are owned by people from the Netherlands, who came in droves for the cheap land, high milk prices and lack of regulation. One result is growing animosity in the region against the Dutch, which, if you didn't know about the cow poop, might strike you as an odd development. The industrialization of dairies, a national phenomenon, mirrors changes in the poultry and pig industries. In the Panhandle, the problem is pig poop, with exactly the same results, except there they are mad at the Japanese, who own many of the corporate farms. The pig poop gets into...
...orientation veteran, having already moved my daughter out of my life and into the start of hers. It's an odd sensation: for 18 years you've been telling your child not to talk to strangers, and now she is going to live with them...