Word: odd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ODD COUPLE. Two men breaking out of wedlock find the freedom of regained bachelorhood more agony than ecstasy. Walter Matthau and Art Carney are hilarious as mismatched roommates...
...ODD COUPLE. Art Carney and Walter Matthau are supremely funny as a mismatched pair of shell-shocked husbands beating a retreat from the frays of marriage. Living together is enough to send them back into the thick of the battle...
...Administration's message obviously had got through to the small investors, who trade in odd lots of fewer than 100 shares. The odd-lotters had been big sellers almost every day since early May, but midway through last week they plunged in to buy almost twice as many shares as they sold. Many little people took advantage of the rally to grab their profits and get out of the market. On the final trading day, the Dow-Jones index worried off 3.89 points, closed the week...
Most of the time, though, Genghis just idles along in Peking, where the Chinese let him in on the discovery of gunpowder. Other odd bits of wisdom are supplied by Emperor Robert Morley, who apparently can't tell one Oriental from another, since his dynasty resembles a road-show Mikado. The high pooh-bah in charge of comedy relief is Kam Ling (James Mason), sporting almond eyes, malocclusion and a washee-quickee accent. As befits a ham, Kam Ling is sliced up just before a lively duel to the death between Jamuga and Genghis. Hordes of loyal Mongol mourners...
...details, all relentlessly chronicled in the most basic English. To say that it is monumentally tasteless is to say the obvious; that was clearly Miller's intention. But at least, unlike so much current pornography, it is not homosexual or death-ridden. Many of its 40-odd sexual encounters are just splashings in Miller's warm-bathtub world of woozy friendship...