Word: odd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bitterness the war created. But even if they weren't hailed as conquering heroes, the vets could have received some acknowledgment and practical help for their sacrifice, especially when it inflicted such brutal psychological wounds. Instead, trickling back a few at a time, they were met with odd looks or derisive comments. Relatively recently, the peculiar predicament of the Vietnam veteran has caught the eye of writers--in the press, in David Rabes plays Sticks and Bones and The BasicRaining of Paulo Hummel, now in Tom Cole's Medal of Honor...
Thurberesque Comedy. In true Hollywood fashion, Carney's award is belated justice. In 1965 it was Carney who made immortal the finicky Felix in Neil Simon's The Odd Couple on Broadway only to be elbowed out of the movie by more bankable Jack Lemmon. If anyone doubted the injustice, two nights after the Oscars, ABC aired a Jules Feiffer sketch of Carney giving a performance of Thurberesque comedy as a harried househusband, a timid man all but overcome by familial concupiscence...
...never thought of myself as a comedian," says Art of the years he spent making a household name for himself as the good-natured humbler Ed Norton. He tried hard to avoid being typed, and increasingly, work on Broadway came his way, culminating in stardom in The Odd Couple...
Just before young Margaret goes aboard to begin a Mediterranean cruise, her mother comments that Rosebud is an odd name for a yacht. Yes, the girl replies, it has something to do with some film. It has something to do with Citizen Kane, of course. After Margaret's annunciation of such cultural obliviousness, it is difficult to work up too much alarm when she and her four equally dim-witted friends are kidnaped by Arab terrorists who start trading their lives, one by one, for compliance with ever-increasing demands...
That bizarre leaning is most noticeable-and most entertaining-in this odd little novel first published in 1908. If the works of R.D. Laing were placed at the North Pole (an idea that fills Chestertonians with equanimity), The Man Who Was Thursday would be in Antarctica. Chesterton here finds his inspiration in order, his thrills in sanity. To his hero, madness and chaos are not merely evil; they are dull. To this overdue reissue of the book Critic Gary Wills contributes a luminous introduction stressing Chesterton's search for revelation in the face of absurdity. The secret...