Word: quirks
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...night's sleep," he lamented, "since 1965.") When asked why they went to such extremes, their explanations were overpracticed, self-mythologizing, implausible. But the truth wasn't hard to discern. Inclusion in the Guinness book gave them prestige, hard to find in impoverished Indian towns. The book reflected a quirk in the mind of Norris McWhirter, and it created its own quirky world. ?By Anthony Spaeth...
...unhip, he's cool. After you win two Super Bowls, a quirk in your personality becomes endearing. If Bill Belichick, coach of the New England Patriots, did not win, people would say he was not flamboyant enough, that he couldn't relate to the pro football player. That was said during his tenure with the Cleveland Browns in the early 1990s. And it was wrong...
...would be possible to erase a specific memory," Bismuth says. "I thought it would be useful if you broke up with your girlfriend or boyfriend." The notion stirred Gondry, who's single and claims "not much success" in love. The two built a basic story that the king of quirk, Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich), embellished into a script. Carrey and Winslet signed on, but they had never worked with Gondry before and his unorthodox style took some getting used to. He unnerved some of the cast by leaving the camera running between takes - actors weren't always sure when...
That singular quirk, switch-pitching, was never meant to be a ticket to a spot on a Division I roster, nor was it a possibility ever explored in-depth by Brunnig, who first learned to throw with his left hand fresh out of t-ball...
Every team with a good home-ice advantage seems to have some quirk about its rink that makes it tough for road teams to win there. At Meehan, that X-factor is the boards...