Word: odd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Farm System. Donnie-as all the pussycats in the trade call him-did it without being able to read a note of music. That in itself is not so odd, since most pop performers nowadays cannot sing a note of music. "What I just seem to have," he says, "is an infallible ear for picking hits." He picks them by getting unsung writers to produce them on order. "I can hear a kid hit a note," he says, "and I know whether he has it or not." He keeps a farm team of young writers whom he pays...
Having assembled this odd lot, Ghost makes no claims about its originality. The storyline, believe it or not, involves a boy and a girl who go to a haunted house in order to hear the reading of a will (Karloff's). Rathbone tries to scare them off with all kinds of fake monsters who emerge from all kinds of fake walls. Then the beach angle is introduced as a bunch of leftovers from Muscle Beach Party set up camp around the swimming pool, and a motorcycle gang finds its way into the haunted corridors...
...This odd proposal is really, according to the anonymous Cliffie, a protest against the college. Radcliffe has refused to let her to move off-campus next year, because she won't turn 21 until February. She can't bear living in the brick dormitories and feels she needs the privacy of an apartment to write an honors thesis in History and Literature...
...odd creature walking onstage at Manhattan's Carnegie Hall looks like one-third each of Woody Allen, Charlie Chaplin and a sparrow. He bobs to the audience, weaves around the piano, pecks the air with his beak, hovers over the piano bench, then alights. "I don't know whether to laugh or cry," mutters an onlooker to her companion. A moment later she knows: when Vladimir Ashkenazy plays, nobody laughs and everybody cries. They cry real tears sometimes, but mostly they cry "Bravo!" and "Encore...
Henry sits in the bar and was odd...