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...overall World Cup standings, piling up an impressive lead over Austrians Benny Raich and Hermann Maier. At the worlds, Miller has brightened his stardom in typical falling-off-the-planet fashion. During the super-G--the second fastest race after the downhill--Miller took a jump off-kilter at 65 m.p.h., struggled to stay on his skis and still won the race by a nail-biting margin. In the combined downhill and slalom, he lost a ski--and the race--at the top of the downhill course but amazed the crowd by running the gates on his remaining...
...fall? We don't know what the cast of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is staring up at either. Honestly! We'll all find out together next year, when the Tim Burton remake of the Roald Dahl classic hits theaters. JOHNNY DEPP, in the top hat, plays the off-kilter Willy Wonka, with FREDDIE HIGHMORE, far left, as Charlie Bucket. Let the hunt for a golden ticket begin...
...Guillermo Del Toro takes Mike Mignola’s cult-fave comic to new depths, adding meat to the hero and villains, expanding the back-story, and throwing in a crucial monster-human love story that the books lacked. But Del Toro’s adoration for the off-kilter miasma of Mignola’s world and the monster-fighting monster is also evident in his attention to the bizarre detail and playful spirit of the comic...
...psychology concentrator in Winthrop House, originally from Fayetteville, Georgia. He feels geriatric now that his entering class has graduated. In his first and final semester as a columnist, he will diagnose the social pathologies endemic at Harvard utilizing his eye for all things bizarre, telling and off-kilter (like mental disorders). Part sass, part class, his column “High Society” will appear on alternate Wednesdays...
...world is both flamboyant and bizarre, as his native country can often seem, but there are several off-kilter moments, strange observational lapses that flaw the fictional universe. The novel's first paragraph sets the scene for Caracera's father's funeral: "It was not a good day for a funeral procession. Temperature: ninety-two at one p.m. and expected to rise to a hundred and ten before day's end." This steep a rise in the course of an afternoon is all but impossible, as anyone with a passing familiarity with the region's weather knows; anyway, it never...