Word: odd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...result of an auto accident, it hopped over to the delivery room of a New York hospital, there to take up residence in a child named Ivy Templeton (Susan Swift). She grows into an ordinary child-except that she has awful nightmares. And then, of course, there is this odd man who keeps following her around. If only he were a run-of-the-sidewalk pervert; for Humbert Humbert, after all, there are practical remedies...
...this seems extremely odd. On May 5, 1944, in proclaiming to an audience of German generals that he had solved the "Jewish problem," Himmler declared: "You can imagine how I felt executing this soldierly order issued to me, but I obediently complied and carried it out to the best of my convictions." Nowhere else, Irving claims, did Himmler hint at a "Führer order" behind the genocide. But Williams College Historian Robert G.L. Waite, author of The Psychopathic God: Adolf Hitler, argues that "Hitler had told his entourage to 'put as little down on paper as possible...
Maybe not, but the Communists were certainly acting as if they did. As aid for Mobutu poured in, Angola charged that the war in Zaire was being "internationalized"-an odd complaint for a regime that owes its existence to Cuba and the Soviet Union. In Moscow, Tass declared that "external forces" were interfering in "the internal struggle in Zaire." Even as the Western powers were afraid that the fighting would topple Mobutu, the Soviets were apparently worried that a strong Zaire counterattack might weaken the shaky government of President Agostin-ho Neto in Angola, which still faces resistance from...
Food of Love. They are an odd couple as Allen envisions them, ill-matched in more than appearance. Alvy's comedy, like Woody's, is based on an all too realistic assessment of self and world. Most people succeed at romance because, for the length of time it requires to make a conquest, they can imagine themselves as different from what they are-tall, dark and handsome rather than short, reddish-haired and bespectacled. It is a state that Allen (more properly his public persona) can never attain. Similarly, most of us get through life by imagining that...
There are some technical problems. Too much action, dancing in particular, takes place at stage level, where it is invisible to all but the first three rows. Some scenes are unimaginatively lit--the stage is flooded with light during a few forest scenes, when shadows and odd lighting angles, suggestive of the fantastic, are in order. Robert B. Sirota's otherworldly music, appropriately evocative for the dance sequences, is distracting when it plays over dialogue...