Word: odd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rather odd...
...Special Forces in Viet Nam. "There's not much glamour in our outfit -just a lot of hard work." Well, not quite. There are only 2,600 Green Berets in Viet Nam, but they exercise control over a force of 50,000 Vietnamese irregulars in 80-odd bases, mostly tiny outposts along the Laotian and Cambodian borders. They run the most economic and perhaps the most unusual operation in the war, carried out on an annual budget of just over $100 million and a seemingly limitless supply of gall and resourcefulness...
Most moving to the churchmen was an address on Christianity and the Negro by Novelist James Baldwin. The Negro's freedom, Baldwin charged in an odd metaphorical mix, has been "frozen or strangled at the root" because "the Christ I was presented with, though he was born in Nazareth under a very hot sun, was presented to me with blue eyes and blond hair; and all the virtues to which I, as a black man, was expected to aspire had by definition to be white...
...Michael Cimino for Kodak, Howard Zieff for Benson & Hedges and Mike Elliott for Rheingold, has precipitated an interplay of ideas that flows freely between Madison Avenue and the conventional movie set. The directors dabble with Fellini-like stream-of-consciousness techniques. Hollywood copies TV's fast cuts and odd-angle perspectives. The quality of Richard Lester's movies A Hard Day's Night, Petulia reflects his experience as director of more than 300 commercials...
...reflections derived from the old, hard-sell commercials will be rather odd. In the typical American family, Mom is obviously a nut. Every blessed washday, she is seen running around the backyard with wild, passionate abandon, embracing her laundry and squealing, "It even smells clean!" That's more than can be said for Sis. Poor kid, her best friend just told her she's got rotten armpits. As for Dad, he keeps getting punched in the eye because he won't switch his brand of cigarettes. So he asserts his virility by barreling around mountain roads in his wide-track...