Word: odd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ODD COUPLE. Art Carney and Walter Matthau are wonderfully droll as two recently dewived men. Neil Simon's lines and Mike Nichols' direction keep the play on the brink of gleeful absurdity...
...same time, an insistent-if by no means unanimous-chorus of criticism is heard, particularly on college campuses, from faculty as well as students. "Teach-ins," petitions and picketing get headlines. Most of the critics argue that the U.S. should stop the bombing and get out quickly, giving an odd combination of pragmatic and supposedly ethical reasons...
...early-line favorite (at 3-1) to win the 91st Run for the Roses. The strapping bay colt did nothing to diminish his stature either when he won last month's $25,000 Blue Grass Stakes in Kentucky. Still, come last week, the 100,000-odd fans who jammed ancient Churchill Downs found themselves another favorite: Wheatley Stable's Bold Lad. After all, Bold Lad had won nine out of his last eleven races, and he was being ridden by Bill Hartack, whose Derby luck was all good: a remarkable four victories and a second in six tries...
Smart horsemen knew the odds were odd. "Four white feet and white on the nose, knock them in the head and throw them to the crows," goes an old mule traders' saying. Bold Lad was white everywhere. Superstition aside, he had been laid up all winter with painful splints on his shinbones. What's more, he had never won a race longer than a mile- and the Derby is 1¼ mi. Before his horse ever got out of the walking ring, Jockey Hartack had a feeling that he was in trouble. "He wasn't reacting very...
...sudsy story of a fallen woman who rises to eventual eminence in the theater. The critics cut it to ribbons: "immoral," "dreary," "a philosophy of despair." The book sold 456 copies. Dreiser collapsed into paranoid delusions and contemplated suicide. For seven years he floundered through a series of odd jobs...