Word: odd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...word had an odd, almost atavistic ring as the bulletins broke in on America's quiet Saturday morning, blaring that Israel and her neighbors were once more locked in full combat (see THE WORLD). With the U.S. finally disengaged from its ordeal in Viet Nam and embarked on hopeful new relations with the Communist superpowers, that elusive generation of peace had suddenly seemed more than a wistful illusion. Much of the nation's population, drawn by both fear and fascination to the unprecedented personal travail of the President and Vice President, had turned its attention inward, where...
...graphic enough and features, besides several odd sexual couplings, scenes of vomiting, diarrhea and other indelicate interludes. None are very pleasant, but none are really disturbing either, because Ferreri is not using them for any other purpose except would-be shock. He does not deal in satire that could threaten or amuse, that could give the sequences substance and, therefore, true impact. His careful chronicle of the dietary excesses of four men is like a prank-a loud, bad practical joke. The men-Marcello Mastroianni, Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Piccoli and Philippe Noiret-hole up in an old house...
Should Agnew succeed in persuading the courts that he cannot be indicted before he is impeached, an odd impasse might ensue. The Democratic leadership of the House of Representatives is by no means sure it can impeach Agnew for offenses committed before he became Vice President (see page 15). If that proves so, in theory at least, Agnew could escape both being indicted in Maryland-if the courts ruled that he could not be tried while a Vice President-and being impeached on the Hill. But if the evidence against him is truly compelling, that logic would not likely...
...into a towering 5-ft. 11-in. handsome woman with the voice of a diesel truck in second gear. Last year that imposing, now graying, woman with the small blonde ingénue inside marched onto the nation's television screens as Maude. It took fate 40-odd years to get around to her, but Bea Arthur is finally a star...
...College. But such moments are rare. Surprisingly little of the dialogue, or even the slang, has dated. And the characterizations -- the hostile policemen, the guy who lives downstairs ("I see the cars go by. I see the Fords. The Chevies. The Datsuns. I see the Datsuns. And the odd Cadillac, I don't miss them."), the pair of put-on artists, the bemused graduate student in mathematics who has lived in the house for three months without noticing that it doesn't include a cat and who tries to set himself afire to protest the Indochina war, the preener...