Word: odd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Black Barefoot. For the more mature, there's the Danny Thomas Show, featuring the star as a grandfather. Two new series are based on plays written by Neil Simon. One of them, The Odd Couple, stars Jack Klugman and Tony Randall. The other, Barefoot in the Park, makes a switch from white to black, with a cast headed by Scoey Mitchlll and Nipsey Russell. Based on Simon's cozy white-middle-class comedy about a square Manhattan lawyer, his silly wife and their nutty neighbor, this black version is certainly an intriguing-if arbitrary-departure from the original...
...faculty meeting, but he did allow one student. John M. Sansone, the right to make a statement to the faculty. It was at that Tuesday meeting two weeks ago that 100 students entered the meeting and stayed when Bok asked them to leave. The confrontation between the 30-odd students who refused to depart and the dean stunned the faculty. Most of them sat silently as the students attempted to discuss the punishments with Bok. who insisted repeatedly that they leave. Sansone said later that the only thought the faculty seemed to have was how to get the students...
...movie, director Sydney Pollack has kept the action almost entirely within the seedy California beach-side dance hall where the novel's marathon takes place. The film covers 60-odd days of the spectacle in two hours-and, after it's over, all sixty days are real to you. The color is sickly; the machinations of the contest are unbelievably brutal; the physical and emotional crack-ups of the participants are staggering and sometimes all but impossible to watch...
This novel, the author's first since Rosemary's Baby, has odd minor fascinations-like the work of a soap sculptor or a first-rate Christmas cookie frost-er. It is set a couple of centuries hence and rather predictably envisions mankind living passive and at peace under the tutelage of a gigantic computer named Uni. It doles out compulsory, will-killing drugs and makes the major decisions of every man's life. Yet the characters seem more pompous than drugged. The plot, despite a few captivating wrinkles, is the classic man-beats-awesome-machine gambit borrowed...
Even today the discovery of a new work can refocus the picture of medieval art constructed by scholars. Often the layman innocently accepts as truth myths that the historian has conjured from a scattered pile of facts. Fragments appear in odd places, and he can only tentatively identify them by grasping at close comparisons. But questions fly up when the dusky medieval art books are opened...