Word: odd
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...cozy home studio in Brookline.As snow falls outside, band members Caitria E. O’Neill ’11, Julie M. Wright ’11, and Luke L. Sperduto ’11 huddle around the piano and work on their song “Odd Results.”Soon, O’Neill steps up to the microphone to record vocals. Her bandmates take the opportunity to get a little homework done, and Powers jokingly tells them, “Homework is not rock and roll!”These are just a few scenes...
...Ichikawa, 93, directed some of the finest Japanese films of the '50s: the war parable Fires on the Plain, the pacifist The Burmese Harp, the kinky, contemplative Odd Obsession. His most enthralling epic is Tokyo Olympiad, a record of the 1964 Olympics that stands with Leni Riefenstahl's Olympia as the great art-reportage of the summer games Xie Jin, 84, a preeminent director in Mao's China, is best known for Two Stage Sisters, an assured melodrama about a country girl who joins a rep company. During the Cultural Revolution the film was charged with advocating "the reconciliation...
...odd thing about the central bankers of the time is that you read their letters to each other, and they really were very worried in a way; I don't think Greenspan was worried enough two years ago. But they had these intellectual blinders on and basically were so rigidly tied to the gold standard that they had almost given up almost all degrees of freedom. They didn't do anything but agonize...
...some Western observers in Baghdad, it seemed like an odd thing for al-Maliki to mention, given the more momentous theme of the day. The MEK is an obscure group known for launching attacks on Iran in the 1980s and '90s, when Iraq and Iran were bitter, warring enemies. But since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the MEK has been stripped of its weapons, confined to its base at Camp Ashraf about 80 miles north of Baghdad and guarded by U.S. troops. The group is hardly an immediate threat to Iraqi security, or even particularly relevant to the challenges Iraq...
...swing in momentum turned the tide in the Bobcats’ favor. “The way they played, we really had to be aware defensively throughout the game,” Biega said. “They were fortunate enough to get some lucky bounces and get some odd man rushes at the end of the game. We really have to limit our mistakes throughout the game—they’re costing us.” Quinnipiac scored three goals in the last five minutes of the final period to capture and maintain the lead. Jean-Marc...