Word: odd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...former crime reporter, now become a freelance crime buster, St. Ives toils away at being a novelist in his spare time. He has more of that commodity than he can handle, however, so when his attorney finds him an odd job, St. Ives snaps it up. An old richie up in Holmby Hills named Abner Procane (John Houseman) has had some journals stolen. St. Ives is commissioned as middleman in the trade-off of big bucks for large books, whose precise contents remain a mystery. As the caper proceeds, however, it becomes increasingly clear that whatever is in the books...
...Civil War. In these latter places, the Republican party has, in large measure, kept its traditional stance as a center-right group on economic measures while maintaining an occasionally liberal approach to the race issue. But in the rest of the region, where Republicanism grew up as an odd coalition of lower class racists and country club Goldwaterites, the party is an expression of right-wing extremism...
Ford, on the other hand, fell into an odd statement in his summation, claiming that "our children have been the victims of mass education," without ever explaining why one of the nation's most cherished educational goals is wrong or what he proposed to do about it. Ford claimed far too much credit for a $28 billion tax reduction proposed for this year: it was largely an extension of last year's cuts?which, in turn, had reached their level only at the insistence of the Congress. Indeed, at another point, Ford replied to Carter's complaints about...
...hurricane that would more than solve his cub reporter's problem arrived without prehistory: no forecast, no cute nickname. Resurrecting names and places from old clippings, conducting new interviews with survivors, Allen has, in effect, retracked the storm. There is the occasionally odd and saving incident. In New Jersey, 60 colonies of beavers manned their dams in Palisades Park and, in the process of saving themselves, kept down the flooding of 42,000 acres of nearby land and highways. But mostly Allen's story is a sequence of unremitting havoc...
Cronin's, on the corner of Mt. Auburn St, next to the Treadway, is still my favorite bar around here. It used to be where Holyoke Center is now, and was the center of Harvard drinking activity, but got moved to this rather odd location when Harvard decided to go bureacratic. It's usually pretty empty now, and is always quiet (particularly because the high booths and ferocious waitresses don't invite rowdiness), but it has a great jukebox--one which you can hear, a distinct difference from the music at 33 Dunster Street, where they play good music...