Word: oddly
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With just under four minutes to go, Harvard’s lead, while threatened, seemed secure. The Crimson had fallen back into a strong defensive posture to prevent odd-man rushes and appeared ready to hold on to the one-goal lead and two critical points in the race for a first-round bye in the upcoming ECAC playoffs...
...stuff free. It's a business! You can't just say, "Ooh, I'll have the whole shop today in every single color!" I've nicked some of my samples--tops, jeans, trousers, the odd evening dress...
...British designer might seem an odd choice to be vice president of men's and women's accessories design at such a quintessentially American company as the Gap, but for Emma Hill, 34, it's been a longtime career goal. Ever since a trip to New York City as a teen, she had it in mind to return to the U.S. to work. "I was obsessed with very American styles like leg warmers," she says. After graduating from fashion school in London, Hill took a job at Burberry as an accessories designer. Although she had originally planned to focus...
...seems odd that an infant is supposed to feed on them, and a grown man is expected at some point to behold them, but for a period in between we feel the need to see to it that no child ever sees a breast. This prudishness seems quintessentially American; Europeans, who have long been more comfortable with the human form than we, are generally amused by the Puritan standards of American entertainment when it comes to nudity. The French, for example, have no trouble with the appearance of topless women, shown routinely in newspapers and advertisements...
...jealousy without compromising her aura of propriety. There are still moments when she comes off like a young fogy--a lyric like "Who cares what the night watchmen say" seems a little moldy for a 24-year-old--but what lingers aren't the few odd phrases but the virtuosity of the instruments and, of course, the voice. Even on an average song--and there are a few here--Jones' vocals are indelible. She never fails to choose simple over flamboyant, never holds a note too long. She may prove to be the most natural singer of her generation...