Word: odd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been doing for 16 months, after city officials had decided that the house was a public nuisance and began trying to evict its residents. All belong to a self-styled back-to-nature cult called MOVE (according to members, the name does not stand for anything). Last week the odd state of siege-which has cost Philadelphia some $1.2 million for round-the-clock police surveillance-approached a showdown when a city judge issued warrants for the arrest of 21 MOVE members...
Lyndon Johnson once called him "an s.o.b. with elbows." Explains the recipient of that odd encomium, Texas-born Charlie Walker: "Down where we come from, that's a term of endearment." In fact, just about everybody in Washington likes the breezy, boisterous superlobbyist, who represents the nation's biggest corporations, including General Motors Corp., Gulf Oil Corp. and the country's five largest airlines. Even Walker's opponents openly admire him. Says liberal Lawyer Max Kampelman: "He's always on the wrong side, but he's good for his clients. He delivers...
...also mystified by the incursions, but less alarmed than its Northern European allies. "It's definitely odd behavior," remarked a State Department official. "But if the Soviets were intent on flexing their muscles, they might send in navy vessels instead of lumber and fishing boats." Whatever the Russian motivation for straying into foreign territory, NATO vessels last week took part in Norwegian exercises that steered clear of the zone frequented by Soviet intruders...
...kingdom, they nonetheless seem to exist behind an invisible barrier. Once a Mormon temple is consecrated, no outsider may enter to see the secret rites or oxen-borne baptistries. Ecumenical entanglements with conventional Christian groups are forbidden. The Mormon religion, with its modern-day prophets and scriptures, can seem odd indeed to nonbelievers...
...last word on the state of American photography; in deed, some of his choices, no less than his uncompromisingly aesthetic position, will be a subject of harsh debate. But it deserves to be seen and seen again, for its emphasis on the apolitical, the uneventful, the odd, the dumb and the chancy is now a kind of official view with which photography itself must reckon...