Word: odd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...farm in California's San Joaquin Valley. He dropped out of school in the eighth grade to help the family and was signed on as a logger for $25 a month in the Civilian Conservation Corps. Every spare penny that he earned in a variety of odd jobs went for flying lessons, and he qualified as a civilian flying instructor with the Army Air Corps at the beginning of World War II. Later, as a civilian pilot for Britain's Royal Air Force, he ferried bombers from Montreal to England...
SOMETIMES DURING the course of Agnes Varda's Les Creatures, the hero and villain of the piece sit down beside a series of television screens and begin to play and odd sort of futuristic chess. The game's pieces represent characters in the village of the film. When two of them meet on the chess board, they meet in real life and are observed on the television screens. The villain has at his disposal a trap which, when it hovers over any one of the characters, permits him to play havoc with that character's emotions...
...present state of almost total ignorance, the only prediction that can be safely made about the other eight planets and their 30-odd moons is that there is not a single one upon which unprotected men can live. Most of these places are almost unimaginably alien; but that very fact will give them immense scientific value. Moreover, in a very short time-historically speaking-we may be forced to exploit resources beyond the earth. This may become necessary or desirable even if, as seems probable, great progress is made in the production of synthetics and in exploiting the resources...
Calling themselves the Red Mountain Tribe (in honor of their favorite wine), the 40-odd staffers submitted to Max's economy in the interests of freedom and underground rebellion. They supplied their own typewriters, accepted salaries ranging downward from $80 a week-in the case of a dropout reporter from the Chicago Daily News, the remuneration of $7.25 for three weeks' work on an investigative story later picked up by the overground press...
This year, two movies about black rebellion have imitated film classics of the Irish revolution. Up Tight (TIME, Jan. 3) was based on The Informer; The Lost Man is a darkened copy of Odd Man Out. The transatlantic temptation is all too understandable, for as a French revolutionist observed, "The poor are the Negroes of Europe." Nonetheless, the Irish fiction grew from a native soul and soil. The Lost Man is a legitimate and anguished cry that suffers in translation...