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...Oddest among the exhibits are two life-size, life-shape, white plaster models of Groves and Oppenheimer: the one, thick-fleshed in an oversize Army uniform, the cast accurate to the bulge in Groves' breast pocket, perhaps made by the chocolates to which he reportedly was addicted; the other skinny, stooped, in an unpressed civilian suit and floppy hat. From hats to shoes, all white, the two of them. All white, too, is a model of "Little Boy" lying on the floor--120 in. long, 28 in. in diameter, nearly 9,000 lbs.--looking like a small, friendly Moby Dick...
Experimental music—from obscure psychedelic rock to underground electronic to the oddest in free jazz—is the forte of Twisted Village. Lone employee Angela (LAST NAME) is happy to help customers find exactly what they’re looking for or to recommend any number of titles. Twisted Village began as an independent record label in the mid-1980s before opening as a store in 1997; despite its foray into retail, it’s still all about the music. The friendly service and eclectic catalogue makes this a store not to be missed...
Finally, as those kept out of the convention made their way out past the black metal barriers around the FleetCenter, some were met by the oddest sight yet—a red, white and blue bandana-wearing man shouting “Win with Dean! Lose with Kerry! Draft Dean...
...WRITTEN ABOUT SOME OF YOUR ODD JOBS. WHICH WAS THE ODDEST...
...might, is Junji Ito's "Gyo" (Viz; 200 pp.; $12.95). Ito specializes in horror comix, a genre virtually wiped out in America since EC comics had to stop publishing "Tales from the Crypt" and its sister titles in the early 1950s. Ito's chilling stories have some of the oddest premises in the genre. "Uzumaki," published in the U.S. by Viz in 2002, featured a town visited by a plague of spirals. "Gyo" starts out with Tadashi and his girlfriend Kaori on vacation at the coastal city of Okinawa. She's sensitive to smells and becomes overwhelmed by a powerful...