Word: odd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Prime Minister even controlled the hawkish Sharon, the man he made Defense Minister last August, and who led the attack on Lebanon. Begin and Sharon make an odd couple; they have a kind of symbiotic relationship, although Sharon needs Begin far more than Begin needs Sharon, for all of the Defense Minister's posturing. Indeed, Sharon makes no secret of his desire to replace Begin. He asks those he trusts: "Tell me, how can I become Prime Minister? How can I get rid of Begin...
Despite his music's careful organization, Reich intends his work to be accessible. Says he: "I am interested in my music's surviving me. Anybody who is a composer and doesn't have any feelings about that would strike me as very odd and very inhuman...
...discovering in some women in the course of research into birth control methods in the 1940s: a patch of erectile tissue in the front wall of the vagina, directly behind the pubic bone, that acts something like a second clitoris. G spot is for the new book about that odd finding, published amid considerable commercial hubbub: a first printing of 150,000 hardback copies by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, and deals with six book clubs...
...odd thing to contemplate is that these bizarre constructions are the handiwork of the society to which they stand as outcasts. Monstrous as they may appear, they belong to the recognizable world of a civilization's institutions, just as the men and women they house, no matter what they have done, belong to the world of those they violated. These people are presented here, flat against the page, as if they were separated entirely from those who observe them. But it is chastening to realize that the life they lead is no less real to them than life...
...hardly looks troublesome these days, this odd, '30s fortress with the Greek-echo name. In September 1971, Attica put hell on display for the nation. There are no signs of a riot today. The shock to one's system lies simply in the place itself, its main wall rising 30 ft. around 53 acres in the middle of dead-quiet upstate greenery. The wall is gray gray. Nothing in nature, including a rock, could be that color. Guards say the wall goes down 30 ft. in spots so as to hold fast in the quicksand. At intervals along...