Word: odd
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Lars Taner, LondonI get a little too much credit for that struggling actor thing. It wasn't like I was waiting tables for 15 years. There were only about three years of true struggle. When I moved to Los Angeles, I was doing construction work and other odd jobs to make some cash, and I rode a bicycle to auditions that were 15 or 20 miles away. But from that point on, I was making a living. If you are making a living at all as an actor, you are beating the odds-even though I was doing some really...
...receive the roundhouse kick of popular opinion to the gut. I doggy dare you. Effectiveness Factor: 8 Chuck Norris Factor: Avert your eyes in the presence of glory 3) The Facebook Sucker Punch “Is that really what you think? That’s odd, considering (insert allusion to enemy’s dirty Facebook pics/ suggestive wall posts/ group memberships). Oh, I’m sorry (directed towards TF), it was inappropriate of me to talk about X’s propensity towards (acrobatics/ political Tomfoolery/ amateur photography) in class.” Effectiveness Factor...
...story: Miller was there when I met Head for coffee three years ago. During our conversation, he heard Head refer to her fiancé. Years later, while conducting tours of Ground Zero alongside Head, he heard that she had called this man her husband. "I just thought, 'That's odd.'" He asked her about it, he says. "She said, 'Oh, yeah, we did get married...
Most remarkable, though, was the odd humility that marked our space enterprise. Yes, in the historical mirror, some of it seems overdone: the astronauts in silver space suits (when military green would have served just as well), shedding names like Virgil and Donald and Gordon for Gus and Deke and Gordo. But that was done with a cultural wink, one that belied the workmanlike ethos beneath the effort...
...While whether or not race played any role in the media treatment, fan reaction, or investigation of Mike Vick is not necessarily the point, it does seem a bit odd that most who dismiss the role of race in this case will simultaneously acknowledge that race plays a very prevalent role in our society. Nevertheless, they never seem to acknowledge it in any particular instance, including within sports, where a predominantly white, middle aged media talk about young, black men with frequency. At any rate, to say race is irrelevant to the Vick scandal is silly—the fact...