Word: odd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ODD COUPLE. Scarred from the battlefield of marriage, two husbands try to find peace and comfort in an all-male stronghold. After some sidesplitting domestic misadventures, they decide to go back into the marital fray...
...ODD COUPLE is odd indeed, as an impulsive slob and his compulsively antiseptic pal set up an all-male household after their wives have left them. Spats and laughs are the daily routine...
...week Pollster Sam Lubell reports that about one-third of the people interviewed by Lubell consider Johnson to be a "better President" than Kennedy. The corollary: two-thirds still think that Kennedy was the better President -and if practical accomplishment alone is to be the criterion, that is an odd judgment. The fact is that people want and need legends as well as accomplishments; the ability to lift, to inspire-to become legendary-is in itself an accomplishment no less concrete because it is intangible...
Before 1900,Terbrugghen was known by little more than his signature. Thirteen years ago, only three of his works were in the U.S.; now there are 15 (out of 90-odd authenticated in the world). In the Dutchman's first exhibition anywhere, all those from U.S. collections are on view at Ohio's Dayton Art Institute and are scheduled to move to the Baltimore Museum of Art. Their baroque realism, their tickling highlights, merry laughter and moralizing mien have established Terbrugghen as a forerunner of Vermeer, La Tour and Rembrandt...
...football today is dominated by thread-needle quarterbacks and jitterbug ends-except on the Cleveland Browns. About half of all offensive plays in the pros are passes. But on the Browns, 60% are running plays, and Jimmy Brown carries the ball on 62% of them-an average of 20-odd plays per game, Sunday in and Sunday out. The best passer in the game can be replaced; Baltimore's Gary Cuozzo demonstrated that last week when he took over for the injured Johnny Unitas and threw five TD passes to beat the Minnesota Vikings 41-21. But there...