It's not always easy to figure out exactly which strange bedfellows may be behind any given initiative, because different organizations may compete to take credit for forcing change at a targeted company.
Critics have weighed in on the subject, prompting a discussion of what exactly is this strange thing called the creative process and whether audiences know exactly what they are getting when an orchestra puts a new piece on the program.
As Carson writes about Euripides's version of him: "All in all, Orestes is a peculiar customer – not exactly insane but strange and unknowable.
Several opponents of making Plan B available over the counter have...not argued, exactly, but made strange and confusing gestures in the direction of an argument that doing so would in some way promote sexual abuse of minors.
Its existence was predicted with mathematical modelling and computer simulations, and was said to exactly explain the strange clumping behaviour of a group of dwarf planets in the Kuiper Belt, a field of icy objects and debris beyond Neptune.
The Huffington Post sat down with Lithgow at the Sundance Film Festival to talk about how he's never played a simpler role, exactly what is strange about love and (naturally!) what life is life post-"Dexter".
Still, he wanted to tell her: not about loneliness, exactly, but about a strange feeling that sometimes came over him, now that he was taking the German class.
But a century ago, the painting's fame was restricted to the west, where she had been buoyed up on clouds of romantic hype ever since Walter Pater wrote in 1869: "She is older than the rocks among which she sits, like the vampire she has been dead many times...". which although not exactly gallant, broadcast her strange allure to hundreds of thousands.
A dialogue between death and the maiden sounds like a loopy conversation between Darth Vader and Linda Blair in "The Exorcist": "Tell me, death, what do you know about death?" she asks, and he replies, "You are somewhere else; I cannot tell you exactly, but it is strange".
You can be like her, but if you try to copy her exactly, you will look strange and unoriginal.
