Word: oddly
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...Xers having them sooner, the market could be enormous. There are 44 million tweens and teens, ages 8 to 18, in the U.S. today--a historic peak surpassing even the baby-boomer generation. Teens alone have a whopping $170 billion to spend annually, thanks to allowances, gifts, odd jobs and part-time employment, according to Michael Wood, vice president of Illinois-based Teen Research Unlimited. "Parents are the No. 1 source of their money, but it's the kids who are choosing what to buy," says Wood. What they mainly buy, of course, is clothes, electronics, movies, CDs and games...
...OPEN AND SHUT David Rosenfelt (Warner) New Jersey-based defense attorney Andy Carpenter finds odd links between a client on death row and his own deceased D.A. father...
...travels from London to her publisher’s house in southern France. Looking for peace and solitude, she instead encounters her publisher’s French daughter, Julie, whose reckless and promiscuous lifestyle is exactly what Sarah is trying to escape. Thrown together, the reluctant housemates enter an odd relationship in which both simultaneously disapprove of and are fascinated by the other. The result is a complex and subtle mystery that transcends standard thriller and mystery cliches. Swimming Pool will be rewarding for more cerebral viewers; for others, it may be hopelessly confusing...
...FM’s campaign for campus civility offered somewhat of a mixed bag. On the positive side, more of my own friends are acknowledging me when I see them on the street. Admittedly, many of these hellos came in the form of jeering drunken harangues and one odd e-mail from my ex-girlfriend that simply read “Goodbye Pete, goodbye.” But, for the moment, I’ll take what...
...first unqualified success when Lia, the QuincyHouse checker stopped me in the lunch line and said, “Honey, I saw your picture in the paper today!” That is, until she followed up with “Hi Dave!” This is particularly odd because I’m fairly certain that Lia has addressed me by my proper name before, or at least something vaguely approximating it. I’ve attributed the miscue to the pollack, which was on the lunch menu that day and has sometimes caused me to forget...