Word: odd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...jury later agreed. After escaping from the Brooklyn House of Detention for 40 days, Jacobson, then 49, was sentenced to a minimum of 25 years in prison. A lot of odd things, though, occurred between crime and punishment, and Haden-Guest was well positioned to observe and record them all. There is little suspense in Bad Dreams; even readers who have never heard of the Jacobson affair will have no trouble guessing the outcome. But the book is an exhaustive account of the after-effects of a murder: the grindingly slow legal process, the grief of the victim...
...people free from odd compulsions. An otherwise impeccable butler, intolerable to the Warner family because of his ghastly smile, returns as a volunteer fireman to avenge himself with a carefully misdirected extinguisher on the house that rejected him. On an idyllic holiday in Wales, little Sylvia and a friend come terrifyingly close to burying another child in the sand. With chilling serenity the memoirist comments, "Children driven good are apt to be driven...
Dominating the action-in a way that most Mimis never quite manage-is the 5-ft., 100-odd-lb. figure of Teresa Stratas. Instead of the usual wisp of pathetic winsomeness, Stratas makes of Mimi a complete woman, one with physical and emotional desires and the will to achieve them. Impulsively planting a kiss on Rodolfo's cheek near the end of Act I, calmly singing at the center of the maelstrom of Act II, reaching out to her lover amid the snowdrifts of Act III or expiring serenely in Act IV, Stratas holds the attention with both...
After Pontiac and the Pro Bowl in Hawaii, where Cass was born, a safari to Kenya is on the itinerary. One day Joe announced: "I want to see some things I've only seen in books." It's an odd expression for someone who might be expected to be worldly. "He's curious, full of wonderment," says his wife, "not at all worldly." It delights him to have installed the sprinkler system in the horses' shed himself and to have managed a good deal of the carpentry. Life is good...
...odd thing is that we do not even really believe that the man in the water lost his fight. "Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature," said Emerson. Exactly. So the man in the water had his own natural powers. He could not make ice storms, or freeze the water until it froze the blood. But he could hand life over to a stranger, and that is a power of nature too. The man in the water pitted himself against an implacable, impersonal enemy; he fought it with charity; and he held it to a standoff...