Word: odd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...union crews are an odd assortment of kids and "union types." For every toothless 50-year old veteran of hockey riots, there's a pimply-faced adolescent in a Mickey Mouse T-shirt. They're setting up the orchestra chairs in blocks of four on the cement floor. The leader of a Garden union crew is easy to find. He's shouting. In fact, all pre-show vocal business at the Garden is carried out at the top of the lungs...
...stubbed out a cigarette, put on his coat and thought to himself: Here we go-here's reform. He made the 100 crowded strides to the podium looking like what he has always been: a pol. Not young, not old, but plenty Irish and plenty seasoned. Odd that he represented in the minds of many of the new people the very bossism they hated; yet he had held the party together for a decade and sometimes, with men like Treasurer Robert Strauss, almost with his bare hands and certainly with bare wallets. Without O'Brien there would have...
Tran Van Hai, 34, has been hiding out in Saigon's labyrinthine alleyways since 1965. Reason: he is trying to avoid military service. While his wife works as a vendor, Hai does odd jobs in the neighborhood; together they make enough to care for their six children. When the police come, as they do with increasing frequency these days, he ducks down the maze of passages in his ramshackle neighborhood or hides between the wall panels of his house...
...speak of a "comeback" by an artist as conspicuous as Motherwell may seem odd, but it has a certain point. At 57, he is one of the last charter members of the New York School of the 1940s to remain alive and painting. Pollock, Gorky, Rothko, Kline, David Smith, Hofmann, Newman and Reinhardt are all dead, and their work has been so long discussed, labeled, ticketed and run through the meat grinder of mass art education that it has already assumed the air of an august period style-the last "heroic" American art. The absurd consequence has been that...
...even in an optimal production, Falkenhain would probably fail to attain the stature of an ideal Dolly. She lacks both the subtlety to express her understanding of those whose lives she arranges, and a commanding presence over them. Oddly enough, she plays the part with the voice and gestures of the typically bossy Brooklyn Jewish mother--odd because Dolly's name indicates that she is an Irish girl who only married...