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Times like those are the ones when I feel like a freshman all over again. Here I am, one of only 13 seniors in an orchestra of 100 some odd students, a position that should make me feel ancient, like the learned veteran I am. Instead I feel younger, less authoritative and confident and significantly more ignorant than I do in any other arena. Even the freshmen, and sometimes, especially the freshmen, know more than I do. I’m out of practice in the orchestra world, whereas they are just coming from the world of regional youth orchestra...
...True History of the Kelly Gang, he chronicled the exploits of the bushranger Ned Kelly. In Jack Maggs, he penned a brilliant fantasia about an Aussie convict crossing paths with Charles Dickens. Carey's new novel, My Life as a Fake, is an absorbing, mind-bending tale incorporating another odd corner of Australian history: one of the nation's most bizarre literary scandals, the Ern Malley hoax...
...butt-ending/game disqualification call against Boston University in last year’s NCAA tournament. As arguably the team’s top defensive defenseman, he will almost certainly return to the lineup this weekend, meaning one of Saturday’s blue-liners will be the odd...
...beautiful doctor (Susan Sarandon), but she is too late. In a plot twist that could only have been dreamt up by a man, Sarandon is seduced by Deneuve—leading to one of the hottest sex scenes in recent movie history. This subtle and haunting film is an odd major directorial debut for Tony Scott of Top Gun and Spy Game fame, whose later films epitomized the antithesis of understatement...
Martinez has long dark hair and a tiny, barely visible nose stud. She says that most who come to her store are just garden-variety tourists, some with an interest in paganism and witchcraft. She has had her odd run-ins though, even by Salem standards. “We did have a Holy Roller who came and tried to strangle my dog.” She thinks for a moment. “We had a woman come in and say that it was blasphemous to call a store Goddess.” She shrugs and hands...