Word: odd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fortunately, Soutine was unable to lay his hands on the 100-odd landscapes acquired in 1923 by Philadelphia's Albert C. Barnes, some of which were later resold to other collectors and found their way into Manhattan galleries. The purchase set Soutine on the road to financial independence and made his work available for New York artists, turning Soutine, Willem-nilly, into a link in the chain of artistic development that runs from Van Gogh to De Kooning...
SATURDAY night 40-odd students, faculty and alumni of Yale sang of God, war, the Russian land, and love. The jingoism of some of the texts seemed a little ill-timed, but this apparently bothered the audience of Harvard academics not at all. The group's contagious enthusiasm and thoroughly convincing musicality brought the audience cheering and stamping to its feet...
...trade name of Chloromycetin, is a potent and valuable antibiotic. That has been clear since 1947, when it was found to kill a wider variety of bacteria than penicillin or other early antibiotics. Better yet, it was one of the first drugs to show activity against some odd ball microbes called rickettsiae. But Chloromycetin soon showed another side of its character: a few patients developed a severe anemia after taking it, and by 1952 it was clear that some of these patients had died as a result. The question arose: Under what conditions should doctors go on prescribing...
...following an asthma attack; in Monte Carlo. Born James Gomer Berry, son of a Welsh town alderman, he and his brother William started their careers at the turn of the century with a sixpence monthly, Advertising World; with their profits they built a publishing empire that grew to 70-odd magazines and 31 newspapers, including London's Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Times...
More and more, that phrase has come to mean ads with a sense of entertainment and humor. One of Benton & Bowles's most successful TV ads, for example, features the bull-necked Korean who played the karate expert Odd Job in Goldfinger. Seized with a coughing fit, he nearly chops down his house with involuntary hand swipes before a swig of Vick's Formula 44 cough medicine calms him down. Even Ted Bates & Co., perennial champion of the hard sell, is going soft. It has dropped the sledgehammer animations it long used to illustrate (and often give) headache...