Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard retains its license to install single copies of software, which means that lab computers will still have the latest programs. Time to break out your 31/2 floppies and head on over to the House computer lab, usually the dankest, darkest and coldest part of the building. Tolerate the odd smell just long enough to surmise that half the PCs are dead and the printer is out of paper...
...retains its license to install single copies of software, which means that lab computers will still have the latest programs. Time to break out your 3 1/2 floppies and head on over to the House computer lab, usually the dankest, darkest and coldest part of the building. Tolerate the odd smell just long enough to surmise that half the PCs are dead and the printer is out of paper...
...think, actually, that when I do occasionally joke about things, I stand in a grand tradition," Kugel says. "One of the things I try to show students in this course is that traditional interpreters...had this rather odd attitude...
...True, there are more cases like ex-Playmate Anna Nicole Smith and her late, wheelchair-bound millionaire husband than there are like elementary school teacher Mary Letourneau and her 13-year-old boyfriend. But since men tend to accrue wealth and power as they age, it's a bit odd, as zoologist Desmond Morris once noted, that baldness doesn't necessarily activate the female swoon response. It may be smart for women to go for the billionaires and tribal big shots, but in practice their choices are often politically and economically irrational, if not self-destructive. Helen dumped a perfectly...
This collection of interviews with inhabitants of the sexual fringe reads like an odd combination of a reporter's raw files and an undergraduate's paper. The strength here is that the author does dig up unquestionably fascinating subjects: vampires who drink one another's blood, necrophiliac morticians, people who claim to have been abducted and sexually molested by aliens, a married surgeon who sleeps with 10 women a month. But her writing style can be monotonous and self-conscious, and her need to place these people in cultural context and blame society for their freakish proclivities is trite. Still...