Word: odd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shadow of the Bomb, military ambition in the world seems to have grown more limited. If ideology still has imperial hopes, it tends to send them around the world somewhat self-consciously, in local disguises, working the odd civil war here and there, mostly in Third World targets of opportunity. Conventional wars have continued at their furious and modestly homicidal pace, of course, and this is still the most murderous century. War, once a business to be transacted between soldiers, with everyone else stepping aside, is more than ever an indiscriminate killer. In little war, guerrilla war, there...
...nomination, his announcement that he would continue as an independent isolated him even further from more conservative party members, and endeared him to Democrats who found Carter too incompetent to continue to run the nation. Anderson could boast the support of a quarter of the electorate, while another 40-odd percent said they didn't know enough about the Congressman to vote...
Like the best science fiction, Strange Invaders is also social satire - in this case, on the very '80s belief that style is content, that anyone wearing or talking in the wrong fashion must be as odd as outer space. By slapping the two decades to gether (in Susanna Moore's knowing decor and costumes), Strange Invaders exposes the banalities and excesses of the popular art they produced. The classy cast (Paul LeMat, Louise Fletcher, Nancy Allen, Diana Scarwid) plays it deadpan but without a hint of derision, and coaxes the movie toward a full-throttle inspirational climax...
After 38 years of partnership, an odd couple feels the strain
...others. To some American observers, it may seem that methods of both child rearing and therapy push people in Japan toward a pathologically dependent role. But, of course, the freewheeling, individualistic American, with a disposable mate and two parents stashed away in Florida, may look a bit odd to the Japanese...