Word: odd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...minority rights, but political instability in the capital made implementation of the new policy impossible. The Viet Cong also made a play for Fulro, but were as unsuccessful as Saigon in winning either the Montagnards' arms or their acquiescence. All through 1965, Fulro's 3,000-odd irregulars fought on both sides of the Viet Nam war: they killed dozens of Viet Cong and (in two Montagnard mutinies) 32 South Vietnamese...
Michele Ray, 28, boasts an odd assortment of journalistic qualifications. A former fashion model and Elle magazine cover girl, the slim 5-ft. 10-in. Frenchwoman is a professional race-car driver and is making her own 16-mm. movie in Viet Nam. She is single-mindedly persistent in search of what she wants. "I first go to the Americans," she purrs, "and if they don't tell me, then I go to the Vietnamese-they always tell me everything." As a freelancer, she recently spent eight days with the Green Berets. Grateful for her presence, they named...
...miracle could save the show from being as sedative as Wilder's last picture, Kiss Me, Stupid. Fortunately, something like a miracle is at hand: Walter Matthau. A magnificent comic actor too long misused as a minor cinemenace, Matthau last year played such a spectacular slob in The Odd Couple that he made himself a major star of the U.S. stage. As the icing on Wilder's Cookie, he should also be accepted as one of cinema's top comedians...
...odd posthumous salutes to John Kennedy, The Pleasure of His Company is possibly the only one that does not try to be significant. Paul Fay has sensibly confined himself to an account of his friendship, and the result is both ingenuous and warm. The fact that Fay's book is being serialized in the daily press and has begun to make the bestseller lists can be taken as an indication that, while the last serious tomes about Kennedy's Administration may have been published, the last glimpses of his personality have...
...arriving with a complete New England house boxed and numbered, his effect on the central action is non-existent. Trumbo and Taradash obviously intended Hoxworth to pump some life into the sorry mess, but he remains curiously unaffecting and eerily unaffected. When the tide flows out after 20-some-odd years (how did they ever manage to squeeze it all into three-and-a-half hours?) all we know about this elusive virile fellow is that he has grown rich and a moustache, but never changed his jacket. While working as a male nurse during the measles epidemic, he takes...