Word: odder
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Sleepaway camp used to be a prolonged gym class with dirtier clothes. The options were basically fat camp or regular. But now there are choices, some odder than others. A cross section of this summer's getaways...
...madhouse. Whatever his affliction may have been, it left no interpretable mark on his work. Nothing is known about his personality, and it doesn't matter. And that's about it, except for the fact that his critical fortunes rose steeply in the 19th century--and the much odder fact that until now, no museum in or out of Holland has ever bothered to mount a show of his work, even though his pictures have been eagerly sought by collectors the world over...
Travel writing involves an odd social contract: writer, for pay, agrees to view inspirational scenery and have a great time, saving reader the trouble of doing so. But Mark Hertsgaard's contract was odder than most. A few years ago, the journalist, who has written books on the Reagan Administration, nuclear energy and the Beatles, set off on a trip around the world in search of noxious vistas and pollutive sunsets--the environmental wreckage that other travelers take pains to avoid. His clear-eyed report, Earth Odyssey (Broadway Books; 372 pages; $26), backed by careful scholarship...
Rebecca Romijn, a swimsuit model who has taken over as host of MTV's House of Style after several high-fashion models failed at the job, says the new, odder-looking models aren't going to become famous. "Women don't want to look like the women who are now in fashion magazines," she says. "That's because the fashionistas call the shots, and they're not in tune with what America wants. They want to be edgy and progressive." But the new models are probably what fashion models should look like--all freaky and gawky and striking, yet elegant...
...plays. For a lot of us it also means dealing with oddball Uncle Bob and other assorted weird relatives. The A.R.T., inspired by this phenomena, presents The Marriage of Bette and Boo at the Hasty Pudding Theatre. With any luck, youll find a few characters at least a little odder than your parents. 8 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, 2 and 8 p.m.; Saturday, 2 and 7 p.m. Sunday, 2 p.m. Hasty Pudding Theatre, 10 Holyoke...