Word: odd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Saudis have made it clear that they want a bigger piece of the action - certainly 60% - and sooner. That demand puts Aramco's managers in an odd position; they will in effect be mediators in the eventual negotiations between Saudi and U.S. owners that will settle their company's fate. Says Chairman Frank Jungers, 47, "Since the Saudi government owns 25% of this company, we can hardly take sides...
...precedents, since no post-Freudian group of undergraduates could begin a routine of dressing up in drag to amuse people. But once the practice can be justified by the past, the show can float merrily along without being subject to serious questions. Still, it is a little odd, or at least surprising, if you divorce yourself from the Harvard context of what-a-funny-example-of-tradition-here...
Acting with no character to develop, an odd exercise, becomes a contest in comparative idiocy. The losers on opening night included Rick Hagan as Androgen, Ray Nied as Pritteples, and Steven Kolzak as Swoedipus, though Kolzak was unusual in the cast for having a good voice and being audible. Generally the diction was about as muddy as the Hasty Pudding yogurt served at halftime...
...young entrepreneur's career began at age 14, when his mother, who owned a corset store in Brooklyn, cut off his allowance. He took odd jobs as a theater usher and a mail clerk, decided to skip college and become a talent agent. Geffen falsely claimed a drama degree in order to land a job in the William Morris Agency's mail room. "I came in an hour before anyone else so I could check all the incoming mail," he recalls. "I was just trying to intercept the letter from U.C.L.A. saying they had never heard...
...contended that the Met's financial condition prevented him from achieving his "artistic ideals." He concluded: "Relieved of certain of my artistic demands, the Metropolitan may be better able to bring its financial situation into balance." Exactly what these artistic requirements might be-beyond hustling up the odd Tosca in a hurry -remained unspecified...