Word: odd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...being over 80 years old, but he has skinny legs dangling below this massive torso, and his arms tend to hang limply on either side of his gut. His head is enormous, completely hairless, speckled, and flattened on top. He has a spectacular hooked nose, beady little eyes, and odd set of small, fleshy lips and a knobby little chin which, despite his obesity, would occasionally detach itself from his neck. I am trying desparately to avoid thinking what I am thinking, but he looks more like Charles Addams' Uncle Fester than anything else in the world. What...
Raymond K. Price has a philosophy of life: never plan too far ahead into the future. It is a philosophy the pursuit of which helps to explain some of the seemingly odd turns his life has taken in recent years. Until 1966, Price served as editorial editor of the New York Herald Tribune. Today, he is a self-styled critic of the American media preparing a book that outlines his criticisms. Scarcely four years ago, Price, a Yale graduate, served in a presidential administration that sought to undermine the power and prestige of the traditional American elites of the Eastern...
...Capitol Hill seem to have it in for Carter's bill. After seven months of congressional scrutiny, the fate of the 283-page program is now in the hands of a joint conference committee. Initially, the committee had hoped to finish its task by Christmas, but with 100-odd separate items in the bill, work is proceeding slowly. The committee decided to recess for Thanksgiving week, and key Congressmen have begun hinting that some of the provisions may have to be broken out as separate bills and presented to Carter in the new year...
...yield to The Turning Point relucantly, knowing well that it is conning you-with sentiment, with flamboyance, with sheer slickness. The story is an odd combination of "Old Acquaintances" and one of those 1930s musicals in which the kid from the chorus becomes a star overnight. The old acquaintances in this case are actually old rivals-ballet dancers who chose different roads many years back and must now deal with the consequences. The ambitious one (Anne Bancroft) has become a great star, is now fading, and fighting it. Her friend (Shirley MacLaine) may have been as talented, but she married...
...prices in the U.S.? If the courts decide that both answers are yes, Gulf would be open to antitrust prosecution by Washington, to private suits by any U.S. buyers of uranium who were hurt by the price blowup and even, conceivably, to suits by some of the 30 million-odd U.S. individuals and businesses that are paying higher rates for electricity because nuclear-power companies are paying more for uranium. In New York State alone, these increases are expected to cost customers as much as $1 billion between...