Word: odd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Each week the 30-odd members of the U.S. Armed Forces Policy Council hear grim briefings from the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on how much conflict there is in the world. Two weeks ago, there was a pleasant surprise. Admiral Thomas H. Moorer reported that as well as he could determine, during the week of Feb. 17 to 24 "virtually nobody is shooting at anybody anyplace." Moorer went on to declare that it was "more quiet around the world last week than at any time since I have been Chairman...
...them get no special consideration under state and local gas-rationing plans. They must wait in line like anyone else-a physical impossibility for some of the disabled who, because of fatigue and skin breakdowns, cannot sit in line for an hour or more-and buy gas only on odd-or even-numbered days, according to their license plate numbers. Nor can gas-station owners save fuel to sell to their handicapped customers; to do so is forbidden by a Federal Energy Office regulation that bans favoritism to regular customers, handicapped...
...cigar-smoking millionaire sounds a bit too much like George Burns, but his Hugo is a masterpiece of foxy pomposity. Best of all is Jessica Tandy, first as the harridan in Maud and then as the great man's dry, abused wife. She endows the woman with an odd gallantry that Coward himself may have possessed...
...enormous achievements of science in posting the universe that man inhabits, odd things keep slipping past the sentries. The tap on the shoulder may be fleeting, the brush across the cheek gone sooner than it is felt, but the momentary effect is unmistakable: an unwilling suspension of belief in the rational. An old friend suddenly remembered, and as suddenly the telephone rings and the friend is on the line. A vivid dream that becomes the morning reality. The sense of bumping into one's self around a corner of time, of having done and said just this, in this place...
...four-letter words, continues. Seven years ago, Bruce died a junkie's death in Hollywood, hounded by obscenity charges. To many admirers, he was a martyr to middle-class morality, and now he is being hailed as the most influential social satirist of the era. A dozen-odd records of Lenny are available, plays and films have been made of his life, and now another movie is under way in Miami. Dustin Hoffman, 36, has the lead in Bob Fosse's Lenny, and, on location, he came up with his own analysis of Bruce...