Word: oddness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...patrolling Baghdad's streets When I was a platoon leader, we had to maintain continuous patrols so I would be out from 3 in the morning until 11 in the morning, or I'd be out from 10 at night until 6 in the morning - just ridiculously odd hours that would change every day almost. So it became really weird - not to sleep or eat really...
...video for Gnarls Barkley’s single “Run,” from their sophomore album “The Odd Couple,” comes with a seizure warning and might best be described as a crazy kaleidoscope of dancing black people and stripes. Lots of zigzagging, pulsing, racing, colliding stripes. The video’s premise is based around a recreation of “Soul Train” (it’s a little like OutKast’s video for “Hey Ya”). “Run?...
...there’s still an odd inconsistency in our attitude towards animals, and it’s felt hardest by the ten billion farm animals we slaughter every year for food, and the uncounted millions used by the animal testing industry. These animals don’t appear on the Animal Planet Channel, nor does the media monitor their individual plights. Masson notes that while his two books on highly popularized animals—When Elephants Weep and Dogs Never Lie about Love —quickly sold over a million copies, it was a harder task to market...
...staccato effect was odd and disorienting. It contributed to a certain Entstellung—a distortion of classical movement. Yet Elo concluded with a series of lifts that were all the more stunning because of the disjointed dance that preceded it. Suddenly the classical vocabulary had new nuance, because it had been broken down and pieced together again. The finale was the center piece of the show. It achieved what “Next Generation” intended to do—to make the classic...
...Tussaud's imparts a lesson to the schoolkids and tourists who tramp through its labyrinthine exhibits, it's about the pre-eminence of pop culture, and the random nature - and transience - of fame. Hollywood A-listers, sports people and British royals hog the limelight. There are 400-odd figures on show, but all scientific endeavor is represented by Isaac Newton, Stephen Hawking, Charles Darwin, Isambard Kingdom Brunel and TIME's Person of the Century, Albert Einstein, who share a small annex with Vincent Van Gogh, William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens and Oscar Wilde. In the dim light of the first gallery...