Word: odd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bruce Michaelides, 29, daughter of David K.E. Bruce, a career diplomat who served as U.S. Ambassador to Britain, France, West Germany and NATO. Bruce never believed that his daughter, who was known to her family as Sasha, had killed herself. Says an old friend: "David knew there was something odd about it. He was suspicious from the start." Soon after Bruce died last year at the age of 79, his wife Evangeline hired Washington Attorney Downey Rice to investigate Sasha's death. As a result of his labors, a grand jury in Charlotte County, Va., voted to bring an indictment...
...really wanted to see the female boxing. But when I arrived I found out it was the last attraction of the evening. Johnson set up his P.A.s amidst odd mannequins and a tapedeck which backed up his vocals. The boxing ring was 20 feet in front of him, and the mingling rock press and refreshment bar was just beyond the ring...
SELF-CONSCIOUS. Dirk Bogarde's Herman Hermann watches every move he makes through an invisible movie camera. He's constantly framed by windows, doorways, odd rectangular objects. He poses, preens, acts for us. About to make love to his moist, hefty wife, he makes sure that the door of his room is wide open, glancing down the hall where the camera sits. But he never looks into it. He's too professional. Or maybe it isn't there. Or maybe it is. Or maybe this is a screwy movie...
...scrape deeper--you will start to be jolted. The tradition of higher education in England--from universities as diverse as Sussex and Durham--remains largely one of "academic excellence," not the idea that everyone should try to get "two or three years of college." There are only some 30-odd universities in the U.K. (polytechnics are still rightly or wrongly considered one grade down), and perhaps only 10 per cent of the college-age population get there. The education they receive is correspondingly more concentrated and structured than that of their U.S. counterparts. All secondary education--whether state...
...Collection (Oct. 25, PBS, 9 p.m. E.D.T.). Not terribly much happens during this hour-long play by Harold Pinter. Phones ring at odd times of night. A London boutique owner unexpectedly drops in on a dress designer who lives in a baroque town house down the road. Two men almost stage a duel with delicate cheese knives. A husband fears that his wife may have had an affair in a hotel room in Leeds. Not much happens during The Collection, but by the time the play is over at least three lives have been shattered. That's the wonder...