CRAFT beer lovers wishing to sample the wares of the Sweetwater Brewery in Atlanta must go to strange lengths to do so when visiting.
"I had a lot of tinned peaches sent to me," said Emma Healey, recalling the strange lengths publishers went to in an attempt to secure her debut novel which on Monday won one of the UK's most prestigious literary prizes.
So the drummer Ches Smith soloed gesturally through a waltz part, sketching all over the kit, but otherwise nailed the music's strange phrase lengths; Mr. Mitchell played the weird chromatic melodies with gusto, making them strong and meaningful through repetition.
The tunes are beautiful and charged: breezy on the surface but almost scarily focused within themselves, with their strange phrase lengths, metrical games over steady 4/4 time, long lines of straight eighth notes intermittently flicking into double time, harmonic elasticity, constant invention.
Plenty of songwriters have literary ambitions but few have actualized them as fully as Lord Huron's founding member, Ben Schneider, does on the band's second full-length, Strange Trails (out tomorrow on IAMSOUND Records, but you can stream it in full here).
Leap year on Earth arises because of the strange relationship between the length of our year (Earth's rotation around the sun) and the length of our day (Earth's rotation about its axis).
There was a strange period (about the length of a football game) on the weekend in which Crows fans were actually cheering for Port.
Fallen branches that have been made into strange arrows of varying length lay on the trails leading up to the park's highest precipice, Mount Misery.
Qian Gang of the China Media Project at the University of Hong Kong has analyzed at length the strange career of "constitutional" language during Xi's administration, and, as he notes, Xi himself declared that the constitution was to assume a newfound importance soon after he took office.
The peloridiids or moss bugs, consisting of 17 genera with 36 species, are very small, strange-looking insects (body length 2 5 mm) with a very cryptic life style, resulting in a limited representation in collections and even less information about their biology.
