Word: odd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...variation within its organizations. Who indeed could stand the monotony of "seven goddamn identical bolts" year after year? Proper procedure ought to be that a chance at a different type of production job should be offered from time to time. I've no complaint myself -I started an odd-jobs business five years ago. Variety...
During a protest at Arlington (Mass.) High School last spring, Martha A. Meyers, 17, burned an American flag. Last week she appealed her six-month jail sentence before Superior Court Judge Frank W. Tomasello, who lectured her on patriotism and suggested an odd alternative. He proposed that Martha immediately carry a big (5-ft. by 8-ft.) American flag on a three-mile march through the city of Cambridge. That chilly morning she dutifully carried her 15-lb. burden through the streets, head high, her face expressionless. The judge then continued the case for a year...
...first available resting place. Mealtime is the pinnacle of the day. In between, they conduct a kind of innocuous sandbox flirtation, brief as a toddler's attention span, with two women inmates, Dandy Nichols and Mona Washbourne, one of whom has a reputation for wetting herself. At odd, unprovoked moments, each man cries over his condition and we, in the audience, cry over ours, which is a short definition of tragedy...
...time she gets through screaming at Felix, they are both evicted-Felix wearing a skeleton suit to frighten Doris out of the hiccups, Doris clad in her best crotch-length nightie with a pair of shocking-pink hands appliqueed on the breasts. Together they begin just the kind of odd courtship one would expect of two such urban animals. They claw, they scratch, they separate, they make up. Both are elaborately cloaked with pretense: Felix as the unpublished author, Doris as the actress-hooker...
...also her lot to face the chants and placards of protesters, the direct abuse of the odd preacher or entertainer and, more than any of her predecessors, to do it all in the eye of the TV camera and the press...