Word: oddness
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...fast-paced noir of the third section finds a Harlem journalist named Oscar Fate reporting on a boxing match in the Santa Teresa. Clearly the most narrowly realized of the five sections, Bolaño’s odd-footed parsing of racial and radical politics from New York City has a Kafkaesque absurdity about it (cf. “Amerika”). The world Fate inhabits is awkwardly fleshless, but the details he chooses can illuminate whole parallel universes; “[T]he Mohammedan Brotherhood caught his attention because they were marching under a big poster of Osama...
...least the next few Wednesday evenings (3-7 p.m.), any customer at Qdoba can take advantage of Dice Day Wednesdays—a 50-50 chance to win a free burrito and soft drink by rolling a large green die at the register. If the customer lands an odd number, the combo's on the house. If not, the customer pays full price...
Rounding out the top of the list from Cambridge were HLS graduate President Barack Obama (2)—an odd choice, we know—and economist and Harvard Ph.D. Nouriel Roubini...
...Dusk is a personal alarm for women that's flying off the shelves of leading U.K. retailers and will soon be launched in the U.S. It's an odd device. About the size of an iPod, its sole function is to ward off attackers by emitting the piercing sound of a screaming woman. But what's truly unusual about it is the company that developed it: British ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty...
Even by the standards of genius, Vladimir Nabokov's work habits were odd. He wrote much of Lolita in the backseat of the family car, a black 1946 Oldsmobile. (He said it was the only spot in America where he wasn't plagued by noise and drafts.) He didn't use regular paper. Instead he wrote in pencil on index cards, which his wife Vera later typed...