• Even a bizarre bankruptcy is a bankruptcy is a bankruptcy, to paraphrase Gertrude Stein, for my intellectual readers.

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  • By the time I was a senior the Regiment had become a bizarre parody of a military struggling with an unpopular war.

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  • Picower's death was ruled an accidental drowning in which heart disease played a contributing factor, a bizarre coda to a deeply mysterious life.

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  • Mr. Grahame-Smith wasn't the first writer to put a bizarre spin on a classic tale (arguably, Shakespeare was a skilled practitioner of genre remixing).

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  • It was a bizarre goal and a bit fortunate, but we thought Mido's shot might have been handled by a defender before the ball ended in the net.

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  • Alain Fracheboud, a gun shop owner in Geneva, told me that if it is proved to be the weapon used it is "a bizarre choice for a professional killer".

    BBC: News, Annecy

  • It is a bizarre occasion, a million miles and over a century away from Manet's time, when Monet and Van Gogh were penniless and their art rejected, and the great Cezanne worked in glorious isolation.

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  • This in turn might lead the Sudanese government to renew its support for the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a bizarre cross between a religious cult and a rebel movement based across the border in northern Uganda, which abducts children and makes them attack Ugandan government forces and civilians.

    ECONOMIST: Threats and excuses | The

  • One of the brothers' neighbors, Albrecht Ammon, said he had a bizarre encounter with Tamerlan in a pizza shop about three months ago.

    NPR: For Bombing Suspects, Question May Be Who Led Whom

  • Besides being home of a prison for women, Chowchilla is known for a bizarre 1976 incident in which a kidnapped bus with 26 children and their driver was buried in a local rock quarry.

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  • They range from food treats to little presents but probably the most bizarre is a daily pack of fresh egg noodles.

    BBC: Clive Stuart-Smith column

  • Katims claims he's always felt it was bizarre for a show with "Friday" in its title to air on any other night.

    FORBES: 'Friday Night Lights' Needs New Friends

  • The deal also includes the John Brown Publishing (JBP) titles Bizarre, a magazine aimed at young men which specialises in weird and shocking photographs, and The Fortean Times, the cult publication for UFO enthusiasts.

    BBC: Viz is sold for ?6.4m

  • In addition some of the 3D rendered images look bizarre including a flattened Eiffel Tower, cars that appear to have melted into roads and a road that looks like it has plunged into the US's Hoover Dam.

    BBC: Apple apologises for Maps switch 'frustration'

  • When I caught up with him he was attaching a bizarre yellow bonnet to the head of a reluctant four year old boy, Carson.

    BBC: The Mozart Effect: Boost or bust?

  • The bill also contains a bizarre provision which allows information relating to a possible offence to be withheld if disclosing it would expose the authority to prosecution.

    ECONOMIST: Freedom of information

  • Trott's first run came after 12 balls, including a bizarre bouncer from North, and no doubt a few choice words of mental disintegration from the Australians aimed at the South-African born batsman.

    BBC: England struggle in deciding Test

  • In it are two items that seemed a trifle bizarre yet are part of a whole.

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  • Andrew Young QC, for the Duke of Buccleuch, called it "a rather bizarre attempt" to fix a contract on the duke for something an undercover officer did in the execution of his normal investigatory role.

    BBC: Marshall Ronald

  • With the bright blue sky and warm autumn sun, for a bizarre moment I remember thinking it looked more like a scene from a college brochure than the evacuation of a building under attack.

    BBC: Remembering the Pentagon attack

  • However, in a bizarre twist of the story, Mirlande Wilson, a 37-year-old single mother of seven who works at McDonald's, told the Post on Friday that she isn't sure where she last had the ticket.

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  • Instead Porter scored the first goal allowed by the Penguins in 218:48 of game time following a bizarre sequence in which Iginla broke his stick trying a slap shot from the point, leading to a breakout by the Sabres.

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  • Buchel was booked two minutes into the second half after a bizarre attempt to deceive Wales and referee Kaldma Sten at a twice-taken corner.

    BBC: Liechtenstein 0-2 Wales

  • The Londoners then went in front thanks to a bizarre try from England centre Clubb, who was left with a clear 30-metre run to the line after collecting Sinfield's goal-line drop-out.

    BBC: Leeds 26-36 Harlequins

  • Street- smart, smart-alecky Detroit detective Amos Walker gets a bizarre missing-person case that leads to mayhem and murder via a passel of vividly drawn, colorful characters.

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  • Buck, a bizarre cross between Peter Pan and Pee-wee Herman, lives a lollipop-sucking, perpetually prepubescent life with his harridan mother in a small town in central California.

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  • On his Web site, now defunct, Cope cited a bizarre source of income:the sale of multilevel marketing rights to a bioengineered bottled water said to alter drinkers' electromagnetic auras.

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  • And in a bizarre way, Microsofts spasm of innovation has made the company now a destabilizing factor for IT departments and Google Docs is looking an awful lot like the old guard.

    FORBES: Is Microsoft On The Verge Of A Sudden Collapse Or Just A Long, Slow Decline?

  • In a bizarre but not unexpected role reversal, Democrats insist that at a time of economic uncertainty, Congress must not only extend this tax cut but make it even more generous.

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  • Then comes a car chase through the foggy forest to which he has fled, and, lastly, a bizarre and moping chamber piece, with our hero holed up in a deserted house, lashings of cold rain, and a pair of useless police officers bickering over his doom.

    NEWYORKER: Tehran Tales

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