Word: odd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Given the history, what astonishes one is this tenderness. An odd, sweet quiet comes upon the field and grove in the September afternoon. The people, after their rally, rest almost dreamily on the threadbare grass. George Wallace has spoken. He sits in his wheelchair on the small flatbed metal stage in the park at Noccalula Falls near Gadsden. The people come to him. They fall into a long, orderly line to file past and take his hand and have him sign their Wallace posters...
...actual period pieces within the text such as The Ladies Wreath (1847). The wedding day Book (1882), and Psychical Research Science and Religion (1925). The almost unimaginable scope of plot and characters contributes as well leaving the reader dazed and satisfied. Humor social commentary and adventure make an odd mixture, but here they combine into something strange and wonderful a Little Women rewritten by a literary descendant of Mary McCarthy and Virginia Woolf...
...live, without benefit of retakes. To guide him through all this in more or less upright condition, Swann is placed in the hands of a junior writer named Benjy Stone (Mark Linn-Baker) who is also a senior admirer of Swann's dashing screen image. They make an odd, but affecting couple: Swann teaching the boy something about the joys of irresponsibility, Benjy showing the star something of the pleasures of responsibility...
...passing reference to that explosive event. In fact, the only intrusion of 60s turbulence into Atlas' world takes place, amusingly, at the Signet, when Allen Ginsberg lights up a joint at a black-tie literary dinner. (I suddenly caught a whiff of a pungent, acrid odor that seemed...well, odd in these circumstances...
...have attracted star actors who might otherwise be making much more money in Hollywood movies. Tommy Lee Jones and Tuesday Weld tap the dignity of N. Richard Nash's prairie romance, The Rainmaker (next month on HBO). Faye Dunaway and Dick Van Dyke made for a moving odd couple in The Country Girl (Showtime). And Malcolm McDowell captured the fury, if not the poetry, of angry young Jimmy Porter in Look Back in Anger (Showtime...