Word: odd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which is against state law anyway). He also supplied Attorney Schwartz with transportation to Manchester, Vt., where Federal Judge John T. Curtin put the prohibition against reprisals into the form of a highly unusual court injunction. The brief for the injunction was drafted by a prisoner who provided an odd element in the largely black cast of rebels: Jerome S. Rosenberg, 34, a slight, round-shouldered son of a middle-class Jewish Brooklyn merchant. After a career of lesser crimes, Rosenberg was convicted eight years ago as a cop killer. Governor Nelson Rockefeller commuted his death sentence to life imprisonment...
...first major film critic since James Agee to enjoy distinction as a scenarist, she has become something of a recluse, both in her life and work. The prominent are never the subjects of her fiction, so far almost twoscore polished short stories and two novels, largely about the odd, unfashionable characters whom Anthony Burgess reviewed as "defiantly interesting...
...Crimson defense will have a similar range of choice in choosing sets to break up opponents' offensive continuity. Restic uses both odd and even man fronts, stacking linebackers and backs in odd positions, and he rolls the defense to adjust to pre-determined weak spots. The downmen and linebackers are distinct from the deep backs in that they call separate sets on each down; but the two defensive calls are coordinated...
...Crimson defense will have a similar range of choice in choosing sets to break up opponents' offensive continuity. Restic uses both odd and even man fronts, stacking linebackers and backs in odd positions, and he rolls the defense to adjust to pre-determined weak spots. The downmen and linebackers are distinct from the deep backs in that they call separate sets on each down; but the two defensive calls are coordinated...
...David Douglas Duncan is one of the greatest photojournalists alive, the Hemingway of a profession that, in its strenuousness and immediacy, cannot have Prousts. "Have camera, will travel" is its motto and its boast. In the last 30-odd years, much of that time working for LIFE, Duncan has been nearly everywhere and done nearly everything-from catching monster squid in the ocean off Peru to recording the home life of Picasso. He has been shot at by Japanese ack-ack gunners, Korean snipers and Vietnamese rocketeers. All this is documented in a retrospective show now at the Nelson-Atkins...