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...fire station makes a good image, but as a space it is odd," said Catherine Lessen, an architect at a Boston firm. "When it was rendered in concrete, it suffered...
...crisp, clean, official military uniform. She grew up hearing stories about George and Marika's son, the boy who completed his mandatory two years of service and then left Greece to join his older brother in America. There, he moved to Chicago's Greektown, worked at a variety of odd jobs, and years later, with middle-age looming, decided that it was time to get married. So he arranged for a month off from work, called home to let his parents know when he would be arriving in Athens and cleaned up his bachelor apartment in preparation for the bride...
...heir of KATHIE LEE and Frank Gifford is charging the National Examiner tabloid with injury to reputation and emotional distress for an article that reported he was a menace on the set of a TV movie. The Giffords claim the story is a fabrication. When asked if it was odd for a 10-year-old to file a lawsuit, Gifford's attorney Barry Langberg said, "It is a little unusual, but then again, it's unusual for a tabloid to write an article about a 10-year-old. Not just unusual, but disgusting." In February, Kathie Lee announced that...
...critters in this three-hour special, which drew more than half the viewing audience when the BBC aired it last fall, are pure computer animation and animatronic puppetry. But unlike Jurassic Park's behemoths, Walking's dinos spend most of their time eating, mating and migrating in between the odd Allosaurus attack. Beastly but bucolic, they're virtual animals, not monsters...
...Moments of stasis like this fill a precious few pages. No matter what the situation, Schulze's characters always seem on the move, chugging aimlessly along into their automobiles, usually Plymouths, but sometimes Renaults. Schulze's world is effused with this odd combination of German sensibility and American kitsch. Why Schulze's characters prefer to drive around in Plymouths rather than Benzes is intriguing in that it cannot be a purely economic consideration. We soon begin to realize the tacit commentary that is being made. The Wall is down, but westernization is not restitution enough, leaving more wanderers than homesteaders...