Word: odd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ironic that when a big-talking film mogul comes up with a King Kong remake with 50 times the budget of the original, the only way he can think of to do the monster is as a full-size model clumsily driven by 20-odd motors that keep breaking down. It's only natural then that when that idea flops he resorts to a man in a gorilla suit. At the risk of denigrating the obvious care and hard work that De Laurentiis' technicians have put in, I must say that to have a stunt man cavorting about...
Event number one, beginning Thursday at 8, features saxophonists sonny Rollins, Gato Barbieri and pianist Herbie Hancock. The mixture is an odd but pleasing one. Rollins is one of the few traditional saxophonists around. Longregarded as a pioneer in the late 50's, Rollins was subsequently blown-out by the great Coltrane and went into semi-retirement. He's back on the scene now--some say as forceful as ever. He is not very innovative, but he has complete mastery over the saxophone as no other has. Gato Barbieri is still getting praises for his rock-jazz-orchestra synthesis Caliente...
Smith presently serves on the Commerce Committee where his legislative interests have centered on business and taxation in Vermont. His activities on the committee have resulted in working relationships between him and more conservative elements in the Legislature, a position which might seem odd on the surface since Smith is the youngest representative in the state...
...help calm the left, Tanin has granted bail to 2,600 of the 3,000 students arrested at Thammasat. He has also restrained the gung-ho anti-Communist sweeps by the army and police, especially in the capital, and has released all but 200 of the 1,000-odd suspects they had corralled. After the initial postcoup excesses, the government is increasingly aware of the danger of providing Thailand's Communist insurgents with a fresh influx of embittered, educated cadres. The threat was underlined when four top members of Thailand's Socialist Party used clandestine Communist radios...
...Daniel Patrick Moynihan boasts one of the most impressive resumes of any American political figure in recent memory. If he succeeds in defeating New York Senator James L. Buckley in the latter's bid for re-election, Moynihan, Harvard's sometime Professor of Government who in the past 15-odd years has served three presidents as domestic affairs adviser, Ambassador to India, and most recently, Chief U.S. delegate to the United Nations, will have yet another impressive title to add to his list...