Word: odd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fischer, who hired lawyers and yielded voluntarily to an arrest warrant at week's end, denied that he had forged the diaries. He called the charge "absurd," adding: "I can neither read the Gothic handwriting [used by Hitler] nor write it." That was an odd claim for one who deals in documents of the Nazi period. Fischer insisted that the volumes actually were written by the Führer...
...children"?Return of the Jedi is a brilliant, imaginative piece of moviemaking. But it does not diminish the accomplishment of Lucas and his youthful team to say that there are flaws nonetheless. The most obvious, ironically, is an overemphasis on effects and a too proud display of odd-looking creatures. Some otherwise breathtaking scenes, such as the visit to Jabba's lair, the hair-raising chases through the redwoods and the climactic space battle, are extended to the point of satiety. The other flaw is the ending: in all three films, Lucas has almost entirely avoided the rank sentimentality...
...delegation rarely meets formally. But off Capitol Hill, many members are close friends, which adds to the group's political cohesiveness. Until O'Neill's wife moved from Cambridge to Washington, he and Boland were the city's version of the odd couple: the disheveled Speaker and the natty Congressman shared a house for 24 years. The delegation's only Republican, Congressman Silvio Conte, is a gourmet cook who invites the O'Neills over for dinner. Says Conte: "We all have a tremendous relationship. And it makes our delegation one of the most powerful...
...odd pages, Wiley and his love, whose name is Orra, stroke away in this manner. The story line that emerges concerns Wiley's ambition to bring Orra to sexual climax, an occurrence that eventually comes about along the following lines...