Word: odd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Baer is careful to give the criminals an odd kind of motivation. The one who does the killing is a psychopath who had himself been brutalized by cops. When he realizes that the woman is a police man's wife, he goes crazy. The implication that violence breeds more violence is not novel, but welcome nonetheless in a time when audiences cheer and holler as Charles Bronson plays judge and jury with a pistol...
...sixty-nine photographs of illustrations from a medieval Swiss Chronicle, the show illustrates life and society in Switzerland (particularly Lucerne and Basel) in the 14th and 15th centuries. The reproductions are excellent (the original is locked up in Lucerne), the drawings are imaginative and the world depicted is very odd. A murder trial consisted of holding the accused's right hand over the corpse of the victim. If the hand bled, the man was guilty and was drawn and quartered. All shown in living color. Through...
...Captain's Cusack's Internal Affairs track record of five hearings held and no officer dismissed or disciplined out of seventy-odd official complaints of police misconduct--nothing! No response whatever except for a suggestion from Councilman Wylie and City Manager Sullivan that the International Association of Police Chiefs make a second visit to Cambridge in the course of their current investigation of the Cambridge Police Force...
McInally began the season on an odd note, when he unleashed a 40-yard onside kick to start the contest. With a somewhat bewildered group of Crusaders looking on, Harvard's Alex Costello fell on the untouched ball, and the Crimson took over on the Holy Cross...
...than the evolution of the American West. When he has disposed of prehistory, Michener introduces his first human character, an Arapaho warrior named Lame Beaver, born in 1747. By the time the book arrives at 1972-with doleful references to Watergate and the ecological crisis-Michener has some 70-odd more chief human characters, along with hundreds of bit players. They include all the tribes of the West, Homerically described: the French trappers who first penetrated the wilderness, mountain men, cattlemen, sheepherders, cutthroats, railroad folk, beet tycoons, actors, industrialists, politicians and, finally, ecologists...