Word: odd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...told the story of the American fighting man as the American fighting man wanted it told." The standard was dubious, but the praise sincere. For the public these moments pass rather quickly, like any death in a war. Yet these killings are central to the function of journalism. In odd ways, if briefly, they clarify the relationship among the news, those who report it and the people who seek those reports...
...clichés describe a small part of L.A., but they are apt enough. The place does have eccentric glamour. The enormous HOLLYWOOD sign stuck on one of the Santa Monica Mountains is odd and funny. "Colonics," a regimen of recreational-cum-therapeutic enemas, is popular among regular people. On Sunset Boulevard nothing seems remarkable about the Professional Waiters School, and on Gloaming Drive in Beverly Hills, the only pedestrians are tanned joggers and dark-skinned servants. Los Angeles has more registered poodles (16,732) than any other city, and plenty of them are dyed the colors of jelly beans...
...proposal, while highly popular, faces a tough fight. Not only must the referendum garner a majority of votes cast, but it must also receive the support of 30 percent of the registered voters, a difficult feat in a odd-year election. Additionally, if passed, it will certainly face a lengthy court battle as researchers challenge the constitutionality of limiting inquiry, and of superset, a federal law (or appropriations measure) with a local statute...
...call this lean, gray machine a bike is a bit like calling a panther "pussy" or the Queen "Liz." It cost $700, has 15 speeds, with wires in odd places, and it floats on balloon tires that would make an ascent up Everest seem like a jaunt through Central Park. "You can go off the curb or hit a pothole, and you don't even feel it," boasts Broderick. "It's like a Cadillac. It's the most expensive thing I ever bought, and I did it on the spur of the moment. I asked Elizabeth Franz...
...Columbia offered to waive the swimming requirement and gave him a belated B.A. (Adler was later given a pair of red swimming trunks by longtime friends Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Lauder. Lauder and Adler are on the board of the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies.) Acknowledging that it was odd to get a B.A. 55 years after his Ph.D., Adler called the bachelor's a higher degree, "signifying a start in the process of becoming an educated person...