Word: strangerness
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...afoul of the Mob. She became a nun. She had kids and grandkids. She was dead. All these speculations were wrong. The truth, as revealed in Richard Foster's sympathetic and scrupulous book The Real Bettie Page: The Truth About the Queen of the Pinups, is even stranger...
Lyudinovo is no stranger to unemployment: it suffered a bad bout in the early 1990s, when several of the town's factories closed and 4,000 workers lost their jobs. But by this October, after a run of good years, the number of unemployed people had fallen to just 320. That number doubled in November, and for next year all bets are off. "This is just the beginning," worries editor Pronin...
...Busier than ever, Okonjo-Iweala is no stranger to hard work...
...been condemned, and its appetites had grown powerful and perverse." Also it had gotten hairy. Rowling doesn't tell us the why of the hair, and no plot points turn on it; it's just there - one of those creepy, evocative details that participate in a logic deeper and stranger than that of plot and moral. (See pictures of Harry Potter's fans around the world...
...opted more toward revival than integration. With their third studio album, “Day & Age,” the Killers once again try to push the boundaries of mainstream music by stretching beyond their already idiosyncratic repertoire of sound. But for a band that’s no stranger to mainstream success and has sold more than 12 million albums worldwide, the question is: why change? Though “Day & Age” rests on the same bone structure of up-tempo dance beats and catchy choruses that made the Killers’ first two albums so successful...