Word: odd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...might go over on prime-time TV--but it seems odd in a book about a Harvard genius to have one Muslim say to another: "Our target is the end of Ramadan. When all the Muslims are celebrating the end of the month with fasting, we shall present them with a special gift, Operation Tanzim." Real smooth, Bulliet...
...trademark parallel constructions. "Jails at their worst," he proclaimed in Ference, Ala., "are better than schools at their best." Hart last week mistakenly referred to his "19-year-old son"; John Hart is 18. The Senator (who seems to have a knack for muffing ages) made an odd joke last week about how old he feels. "When we started, I was 20," he told a little girl who asked if it was difficult running for President. "Now I feel like...
...dubious honor, Egger makes $70,800 a year and has the odd pleasure of living all the time among the tax tables. He loves it. He is one of the world's great orderers, sorters and Roscoe Egger waiting for returns storers of paper, and the IRS process ranks
Phone-company officials report that an odd psychology appears to have devel oped among users of America's 183 million telephones. If anything goes wrong now, they blame it on divestiture. Says Illinois Bell's Patricia Montgomery: "A woman called to complain about some problems, which were caused by water seeping into the system. No amount of explaining could convince her that it was because of a wet cable, not divestiture." Another Illinois customer groused that the phone company was "driving up the cost of service," when in fact his most recent local-service bill was $21.93, only...
...understands that you can go a long way in comedy on sheer energy. His picture seethes like a study hall when the teacher has stepped out of the room. Everywhere you look someone is making funny noises or thinking about wrecking a car. There is even something for the odd adult here: a dreamily delicate performance by George Gaynes as the academy's superintendent, a man whose mind went AWOL a couple of decades back. In other words, Police Academy's gains at the box office are not entirely ill gotten. Mack Sennett would have understood them...