Word: odd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...odd years since Salvador Dali separated from the surrealist movement, he has leaped from one extravagant triviality to the next, combining the roles of circus freak, spangled elephant and Barnum himself. The performance is tinted with sadness. Dali is undoubtedly the last of the great dandies, but nobody accepts his own belief that he is the last of the great artists, heir to Vermeer and Velásquez. The baroque costume jewelry, the monarchist-Catholic oratory, the worn stock of crutches and soft watches-all have dust on them. Even the trembling antennas of that fabled mustache have apparently ceased...
BEFORE HE could do anything, Guy needed funding. Off went 250 letters to House associates, overseers, friends who owed favors--"anyone who I thought had money and might write a check." Figuring that regular mail might be ignored, he sent fifty-odd registered letters, which arrived in New York around 6:30 a.m. Guy's bleary-eyed friends wrote profanities on the receipts; they also sent money. In three weeks he had $2000. Royalties claimed a major chunk, the stage construction another. Even the xerox bill came in at an astronomical...
...Topic A around the Vatician these days is whether Pope Paul VI will resign when he reached 75 on Sept. 26. In 1966 Paul urged that bishops retire at 75. Shortly thereafter, he titillated papal observers with an odd pilgrimage to the castle associated with Pope Celestine V, who quit the papacy in 1294 after only five months in office. Within the past month, two Rome weeklies have primed the speculation. L'Espresso ran a poll of Curia opinions on whether Paul would step down (65% said no), and Il Mondo suggested waggishly that an unnamed cardinal was making...
Ford was forced into this odd procedure by a budding driver rebellion against recalls that look to critics like mere patch-up jobs. Two weeks ago, Ford executives decided only to install an inexpensive retainer plate on a rear hub of each car. The plate is designed to increase the screeching noise that occurs when an axle starts to come loose, so that the driver cannot help noticing it, and to hold the axle in place for at least 100 miles, so that the driver has time to reach a garage. In doing no more than that, the company would...
...been playing since he was 13. After years of supporting his family on state disability payments (he has been blind since birth), odd jobs, and guitar playing with local groups, he was "discovered" in the early '60's. He toured alone at first, but teamed up in 1964 with his son Merle who at 22 is now showing a dose of his father's guitar-playing brilliance and an extraordinary talent with the banjo as well...