Word: odd
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...main reason for everything from radical politics to the final clubs to the Crimson to most of what goes on in Carpenter Center. This lack of a theme is the major disappointment of the movie. At the beginning we meet a series of awed freshmen describing the odd things they've seen, like the hippies in Harvard Square, and one keeps waiting for the film to return to them two or three years later, having given up physics for the revolution. But the revolution never comes. (There is only one explicit reference to "the revolution" in Experience, the gist...
Rising production costs and competition from commercial television for advertising are only part of Fleet Street's problem. Thanks to a long tradition of ineffectual management, the newspapers' 40-odd labor unions are able to whipsaw British publishers with wildcat strikes or strike threats close to deadlines that amount to near blackmail. "The unions run our business," concedes Lord Thomson of Fleet, Britain's premier press lord, whose prestigious but money-losing Times is desperate for readers. Adds Thomson: "They even censor our papers...
Just One More. Two days later, when I pulled Anglin' Sam out of bed at 5 a.m., he remarked that I had a funny glazed look. "Bass on the brain," he called it. The odd smell in the air-a combination of pork rind, outboard motor oil, anise and fish scales-he called "essence of largemouth." That afternoon, while twitching purple-plastic worms off the bottom, I had a strike that seemed to turn the boat around. When I set the hook, it felt like there was an anvil on the other end. Diving and circling the boat...
...Odd Jobs. While he waited, Kosinski carried a foil-wrapped egg of cyanide in his pocket and kept repeating to himself, "No matter what, I am going to depart." Miraculously, his scheme worked. On Dec. 20, 1957, he arrived at Idlewild Airport, completing what he considers the greatest creative act of his life...
...usual odd jobs-truck driver, bottle wiper-were followed by a Ford Foundation grant to continue his research. Under the pen name Joseph Novak, Kosinski published two studies of Communist political theory: The Future Is Ours, Comrade (1960) and No Third Path (1962). In 1962 he married Mary Hayward Weir, the 40-year-old widow of the founder of the National Steel Corp., and Kosinski's life changed again. He began to move in the world of the influential rich, some shadows of which fall on the pages of Being There. His wife died in 1968 after a long...