Word: odd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...program note, Coe makes the odd statement that "Hamlet avoids succession to the throne by willing his own death throughout the play because he considers he has nothing to lose by it." Hamlet is, in fact, so chameleonic that there isn't anything he does throughout the play. But Walken's Hamlet lacks range, there is little in it except harshness and choler. It needs infusions of sensitivity, intellectuality wit, irony, and especially music (of which Hamlet claims to be a master...
...odd notes sounding through the fiscal debate is a sort of muffled cry for vengeance. The amendment will be a terrible swift sword, a judgment at last. It will impose discipline upon a nation that has felt itself losing control in a thousand ways, control not only of its money but its morals and its neighborhoods and its place in the world. The balanced-budget amendment is a metaphorical gesture with meanings that transcend the fiscal...
Physically, emotionally and politically they made a diplomatic odd couple. Towering Prince Saud al Faisal, elegantly attired in thobe and ghitrah, represented with cool reserve the oil-rich monarchy of Saudi Arabia; Abdel Halim Khaddam, a diminutive figure in an ill-fitting business suit, spoke excitedly and volubly for hard-line Syria, backed by the Soviet Union. Nonetheless, as Arab Foreign Ministers they found themselves calling together at the State Department and the Oval Office last week...
...Gart the week before and stayed in Iraq as the threat of invasion increased. When Iran attacked, Jordan was the only Western journalist at the scene of the fighting near Basra; he had been in the border area for two or three days. Says Jordan: "There was the odd shelling, and gradually it got closer and heavier. There was also shelling in the vicinity of Basra and the neighboring town of Abu al Khasib. It was amazing to see how people just carried on in the midst of it all." Meanwhile, Gart went to Jerusalem and then to Cairo, where...
...sights and smells, the cadences of conversation, the laughter of old friends. Precious anecdotes were salted away and used again years later. This ability to call up the past gave his columns a resonance that has grown rare in daily journalism. To be sure, some of the 300-odd pieces gathered in these two volumes should have been left in yesterday's newspaper. But most are timeless, literate and witty enough to appeal to readers who do not know the backstretch from the front nine...