Word: odd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Which is odd, because Marlene has already received extensive U.S. uncoverage in Hugh Hefner's Playboy and Out, archrivals of Publisher Bob Guccione's Penthouse. She was featured as one of Playboy's "Girls of Munich" in August 1972, an exposure that won her a spot on Oui's November 1972 cover and a centerfold spread inside ("Marlene: The Blonde Angel"). Which is again odd, because Guccione refuses to photograph models for Penthouse who have appeared nude elsewhere. He also insists that his models give their real names for publication. Does he feel he was snookered...
...year later, he went back to Hamilton, then to Manhattan's New School for Social Research, where he earned a B.A. in business administration. He and a girl friend took off for five months of thumb-tripping and odd-jobbing in Yugoslavia. He returned to get a master's degree in public administration from Syracuse University and decided to become a spy. He went to Washington to offer himself to the CIA, but it was 1953, the McCarthy era, and after one look at his record, "the guy at the CIA laughed and told...
...Rippe engines are an odd but delightful amalgamation of handcrafting and machine mass production. Marcel Duchamp and James Fulton would probably both have liked them. But when the relationship between Jim Rippe and his quixotic great-uncle is made clear, the show becomes a little more than just a witty exercise in visual nostalgia...
...trumpet for this gastronomic treason is Le Nouveau Guide Gault-Millau, a glossy, 120-odd-page journalistic compendium of recipes, restaurant reviews and guides, plus lengthy culinary debates. The monthly magazine, now four years old, evolved from the two editors' decade-long collaboration on 18 guidebooks to France and beyond. "G. and M." as some call the Paris-based magazine, exerts influence far beyond its 145,000 circulation. Its editors are currently dashing the chauvinistic notion that to be gustatorily gifted is to be French. They regularly grade domestic Chinese, Indian, Indonesian and Vietnamese food...
...radio ("Do you want it in the front or in the back?"). But the movie is also full of humor, melancholy and some dazzling film making. This is Eastman's first film as a director, but he demonstrates considerable sophistication, a feeling for textures and odd nuances. One long scene in a gym-empty at first, then slowly filling with fighters doing exercises-is as carefully controlled and lovely as a fugue. It is characteristic of Eastman that the sounds of the gym-a jump rope skipping against the floor, a bag being punched hard in irregular rhythm...