Word: odd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Such odd and offbeat problems are constantly cropping up in the week's news. For TIME'S editors they often offer the unexpected angle or provoke the added insight that can give a story new vitality. A sampling from this week's issue...
Given Sihanouk's off-and-on attitude toward the U.S., his handling of the prisoners seemed odd. In fact, he is simply adjusting his policies once more to the course of events in Southeast Asia. Initially, his price for releasing the eleven was high. But since the halt of American bombing of North Viet Nam, and the consequent feeling that peace is a few steps nearer, Sihanouk now says that the men will go free once he has received a note from Lyndon Johnson pledging that U.S. forces in Viet Nam will "do their best" to avoid violations...
Ryman's pictures are so unsettling, in fact, that some who see them for the first time laugh outright. He finally made his first commercial sale a month ago. Moreover, Ryman is no longer alone. For the past year or so, a dozen-odd other, younger artists have been producing pictures or sculptures that share his work's maddeningly artless look...
...Anti-Memoirs soon find, the author, now 67, has loftily decided to leave nearly all of his personal chronology out of his autobiography. ("Almost all the writers I know love their childhood," he writes, thus disposing of all that. "I hate mine.") What he offers instead is an odd, episodic mixture of action and reflection, frequently obfuscated by Malraux's fondness for flights of impenetrable Gallic rhetoric. The book includes part of an early novel, some narrative accounts of his adventures in the French Resistance and elsewhere, and long replays of longer interviews with Mao Tse-tung and Nehru...
...debt, which I still am, a little more than that, about $30,000. I was only selling 4000, 5000 papers a week. I sold each issue for ten cents. The publication costs were about $4000. I was getting about seven cents a copy, bringing in about $300 and some odd dollars a week, which wasn't enough to pay the rent and pay the girl in the office, and pay the linotype operator that I had working here, and give me a week's pay, and pay the drivers' who were taking out the stuff. I was in the hole...