Word: odd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That still left the D.A. a long way from establishing anything except that Oswald kept some odd company during his 1963 stay in New Orleans. Still, Garrison remains certain that he has something big. "I have no doubt about the case," he said. "There will be more arrests, and they will hold up. If you bet against me, you will lose...
...special blend that makes up this week's cover on Playboy Editor Hugh Hefner. It is the work of Marisol, whose highly original and wryly appealing style joins wood sculpture, drawing and painting (not to mention carpentry) in a unique combination. The components of her portraits may be odd -a box, a block, a barrel-but they perceptively convey likeness as well as character. "Her art is that of a toy-maker," wrote TIME'S art critic in 1963, "designed to appeal to that part of the mind in which fantasy and reality seem identical. The only difference...
...Soldier's Art, the eighth novel in this marathon enterprise,* Powell, now 61, brings his narrator hero, Nick Jenkins, into his second year of World War II. Jenkins carries on with his task of scoring for conversation the operatic ballet that keeps Powell's 50-odd characters dancing eccentrically until war imposes its own choreography...
...there are masses of people passing within speaking, within touching distance of each other--all muttering gibberish, eyes glazed, isolated. Truffaut cops out, He converts into a robot the hero he sets out to humanize. The music swells up and insists: be exhilarated! That's after 90-odd minutes of tedium...
...forty-odd students in each class at the Woodrow Wilson School are presumably united by a common goal: the desire to take part in some facet of "public affairs." Exactly what constitutes "public affairs" is unclear, but the definition seems to be narrowing. Two years ago the school was vaguely tolerant of aspiring journalists and not entirely committed to the exclusion of teachers and businessmen; now it is insisting on protobureaucrats. More than ever, its tightly knit (25 courses to choose from) curriculum aims at the production of better civil servants...