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 de-wived men. Neil Simon's lines and the wild comic touch of Director Mike Nichols keep the play on the brink of gleeful absurdity...
...Here Nichols is concerned with an odd trio. Anne Jackson, Eli Wallach and Alan Arkin are creatures of the absurd, weeping cocktail tears of self-pity while the audience has all the laughs...
TELEMANN: THE PASSION OF JESUS ACCORDING TO MARK (Philips; 2 LPs). Telemann was the most prolific member of the 18th century avantgarde, showing in his thousand-odd works a radical tendency to abandon Bach-type counterpoint in favor of melody and accompanying harmony. His Passion is given its first recording by the Lausanne Youth Choir and the Munich Pro Arte Orchestra, led by Kurt Redel, who has made a distinguished specialty of baroque music...
...affected by the strike, and possibly responsible for the comparatively subdued tone of the male outcry: the city's 100-odd toruko buro, or Turkish bathhouses, famed for their bikini-clad and sometimes surprisingly versatile masseuses...
...beaches of Southern California, the odd-looking knobs that can be seen protruding just below the kneecaps and on the top of the feet of suntanned surfboarders are generally recognized as a status symbol, the mark of a practiced wave rider. The medical significance of the strange lumps is a knottier problem, and West Coast doctors are now seeing more and more evidence of such surf board trauma...