Word: oddly
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...school's headmaster (Clive Merrison) believes. To help get his sixth-formers into one of the posh places, he hires Irwin (Stephen Campbell Moore), a clever young man just down from university, to help the boys impress their imminent inquisitors. Say the unexpected, he tells them; nurture the odd fact, such as that at the time of the Reformation "14 foreskins of Christ" had been preserved. Don't just be right; that's boring. Make an impression! Hector (Richard Griffiths), the boys' huge, studiously eccentric English teacher, doesn't care where they end up, doesn't believe in the utility...
DIED. TONY RANDALL, 84, versatile, opera-loving actor who was a fixture of the American stage and screen for more than 50 years but is best remembered as the punctilious fussbudget Felix Unger in the 1970s TV sitcom The Odd Couple; in New York City. By the time he was cast in his defining role, Randall was already an accomplished performer, having appeared in the original Broadway production of Inherit the Wind and as a smart-aleck sidekick in three Rock Hudson?Doris Day films. He remained active in his 70s and 80s, founding the National Actors Theater...
...approach which may explain the deadpan air of his works. He didn't take an easel and paint out in the open, but went on the road looking for subjects and making sketches. His pictures were carefully composed back in the studio. But his juxtaposition of elements was sometimes odd: urban buildings and their inhabitants seem set down in fields, or surrounded by forests. His figures can be stiff, and his scenes are deliberately devoid of drama. These people are strangers - we don't know their stories. They're not about to tell. As the end of his life approached...
...It’s very exciting but it also feels a bit odd, because we’ve been together for seven years and we’ve been de facto married for five of those years,” she said. “It’s like we’re getting married but we’re already married. I feel the legal reality is catching up with our daily reality...
...Paulo unrecognized. Baseball's appeal is limited to North America, some (but not all) of the Caribbean islands, the northern littoral of South America, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. Cricket is played in the countries that were once part of the British Empire and has a few odd devotees in the Netherlands. Even the Olympic Games are not a truly global event, because my Olympics are not your Olympics. If you're a Western European, the Games is a track-and-field championship, while for American TV viewers it's a reason to go all gooey-eyed over winsome teenage...