Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...development to introduce another melody. There were other times when he dressed up a banal moment with humorous orchestral tweaks and twitches, or suddenly stirred up a bee's nest of climax. Only the fourth movement sounded thoroughly like the old Prokofiev; playfully capering themes rippled off into odd harmonic corners and back again almost before the listener knew what was happening...
...Smithsonian gets the money it needs, one of the first exhibits to be spruced up will be the fading dresses once worn in the White House. Carefully fitted to wax dummies, the old clothes will be displayed in eight separate rooms, complete with White House mantelpieces, furniture and odd bric-a-brac. "Women," says Dr. A. Remington Kellogg, director of research, "deserve a fine setting...
Producer-Director George Cooper Stevens, 48, is a perfectionist who came up an odd way: at 19, he was the youngest cameraman in Hollywood, and his specialty was comedy (including 60 or more Laurel & Hardy and Harry Langdon shorts). Hal Roach made him a director (of shorts) in 1929, and Stevens moved on into feature-length pictures merely by stretching out his two-reelers. His first big hit was Alice Adams (1935)., followed by such topnotchers as Gunga Din, Woman of the Year, The Talk of the Town, A Place in the Sun, Something to Live...
...County Clare, the second time to marry. "Everyone knows the most beautiful women come from Ireland. And even MacCauley admitted that the most beautiful Irish women come from Clare. I went back to marry the most beautiful woman in Clarel" Doing defense work in Boston during the war, and odd jobs after, Eddie came to Lowell House...
Before dawn one day last week, a detachment of Kenya cops, supported by armored cars, marched into Pumwani, a filth-strewn warren where a large part of Nairobi's 60-odd thousand Kikuyu somehow find space to live. Dragged from their mud huts, 20,000 Kukes were herded into compounds; 2,500 suspected Mau Mau terrorists were culled from among them and clapped into jail. Next day there were more arrests; another 3,500 "suspects" were seized near Thika...