"I'm really interested in presenting history from the bottom," she explains, sitting in an office at Penguin Random House's Pimlico HQ, appropriately a short walk from Vauxhall's oddly distinctive MI6 building.
Over the course of the next couple of hours, Dahan will spend an inordinate amount of time shoving his lens right into poor Ms Kidman's face, focusing on her bloodshot eyes, drooling over her oddly distinctive upper lip, daring someone to whisper out loud: "That's not Grace Kelly – that's the woman who peed on Zac Efron".
I'm not quite sure why they gave him scraggly, unattractive facial hair but I am sure why he speaks in a low, oddly distinctive voice as the assistant.
Oddly enough, the distinctive Bournonville épaulement or upper body shaping was more in evidence in Balanchine's "Donizetti Variations," performed on Tuesday, especially in the performances by Jenifer Ringer and Philip Neal, the leads, and the demisoloist Carrie Lee Riggins.
And while Finch looks to be a simpler character than the masterfully devious Ben Linus of "Lost," Mr. Emerson is as distinctive and oddly appealing as ever.
From the skimpy outlines of a cartoon, Mr. Lane manages to make his oily Gomez a distinctive and oddly lovable character, a tasty but inoffensive parody of the suave European of old Hollywood movies.
He wields his acoustic guitar not like a gun but like a badge or a shield, hoiking it up across his chest like a boy with a grownup instrument too big for him: a strange, but distinctive and oddly affecting gesture.
But it remains an oddly anonymous enterprise from this talented and distinctive director.
The researchers, including Teuku Jacob and Etty Indriati of Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta, also studied 76 Rampasasa pygmies who now live only a few kilometers from Liang Bua cave; they report that the Rampasasa lack chins and sometimes have oddly shaped premolar teeth, features identified as distinctive in H. floresiensis.
Glass has one of the most distinctive voices on the radio; it's creaky, oddly cadenced, a bit lispy at times -- though, since he speaks from a script, there are few "likes".
That was striking and distinctive, but I found the kaleidoscope of visual images oddly depthless and psychologically uninvolving and the Japanimated moppet faces an acquired taste.
