Word: oddness
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...allowed to call their loved ones. They were given no food. When one of the pilots tried to use the bathroom before a bomb-sniffing dog had finished checking all the carry-on bags, an officer ordered him to sit down, according to passenger Alain Ghonda, who thought it odd. "He was the pilot. If he wanted to do anything, he could've crashed the plane." It was a metaphor for the rest of the country: Thank you for saving the day. Now go sit down...
...much lesser Judd Apatow movie. "My rooms," says Watson, referring to the Baker Street apartments they share. "Our rooms," Holmes retorts. "My dog," says Watson, referring to the corpulent white dog Ritchie cuts to for an occasional punchline. "Our dog," Holmes says tartly. They'd be "The Odd Couple" if they were funnier and actually mismatched (Law is too pretty to play Watson). (See the top 10 movie performances...
...defiant atrocity) would turn Holmes into an action hero. Nor does it feel like a sin against humanity or literature; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was fun but he wasn't exactly Henry James. What is surprising is how bland the results are. The explosions and action sequences have an odd cheapness to them and the central plot is one of those dreary take-over-the-world routines. (Blackwood has "set his sights on America." Don't they all?) Even more surprising is that Robert Downey Jr. doesn't manage to overcome all that. In theory, he seems like such...
Thanks for the essay on Glee and the critics who call it anti-Christian [Dec. 7]. The essay illustrates the high value of such stories for all of us--and shows that apparently twisted plots and odd characters can teach us more about life, love and the world than we would ever have imagined...
...desire to be a weatherman. I wanted to be a TV writer or producer. In my sophomore year of college, my department chairman put me up for a weekend weather job in Syracuse, N.Y., which was odd because he told me in my first performance class that I had the perfect face for radio...