Word: odd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jesus, I thought. You mean that this woman has lived 60-odd years thinking that her presence in rooms causes the ceilings to leak...
...novel -to Philippe Perrigny, a second-rate French journalist who believes that lurking somewhere in the depths of perfidious Albion's Mother Goose is a symbolic answer to the riddle of the universe. Philippe in turn is married, as unsatisfactorily as possible, to Shirley Norrington Higgins Perrigny, an odd Canadian girl, and the heroine of this peculiar yet delightful novel...
...odd musical conjunction of the two men also involved 104 stunned members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic gathered for the world premiere of Zappa's 200 Motels, written for the Mothers and orchestra. What the concert, held before 11,000 rock fans at the U.C.L.A. basketball arena, mainly proved is that any marriage between rock and the classics is likely to be stormy indeed. As the Mothers' Bassist Jeff ("Swoovette") Simmons said tolerantly of the orchestra: "Those dudes are really out of it, man. It's like working with people from another planet...
...rescheduled Hawaii Five-O, for example, so that it played opposite a more vulnerable NBC program. At season's end, when the whole game seemed to ride on the ratings of a Cinderella special, Dann sent a poignant wire to the managers of CBS's 200-odd affiliates...
...odd end for an almost incredibly naive band of self-styled narodniki. There had been a four-month spree of bombings in commercial and federal buildings and other public places in Manhattan. The explosions caused 19 minor injuries...