Word: odd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With advanced electronic cameras, which automatically focus and determine light settings, almost anyone can film action: a fire, a raging crowd or an erupting volcano. Only someone with a special eye can catch those odd and revealing juxtapositions that give meaning to the obvious and jejune. The portraits of an exploding Mount St. Helens were awesomely beautiful; but it was San Jose Mercury News Photographer George Wedding's aerial picture of Andy, an eleven-year-old who had been asphyxiated by volcanic ash as he lay in the back of a pickup, that conveyed the awful power of that...
...Once in a funny, odd-shaped house/ There lived a wee maid and a mouse./ The mouse was fat, the maid was thin./ The house was new-they'd just moved in." So begins the shaggy-mammal story The Maid and the Mouse and the Odd-shaped House (Dodd, Mead; $9.95). Told in rhyme as infectious as the prescriptions of Dr.Seuss, the tale comes complete with the kind of conclusion that dissolves children in laughter at every telling. The house, it turns out, is more than odd-shaped, it is cat-shaped, complete with legs, whiskers and a roar...
...often embarrassed the president with his antics, the most recent being his statements to the press that certain people in the White House were out to get him. For a president who has tolerated this much from his staff, to be keeping Allen at such a distance seems odd...
...tubs. They perch on the stairway, roost on the bookcase, snooze in the laundry basket. They also occupy the dining room table, and the childless Milsters no longer eat there. Litter pans crowd the walls, the halls and the corners. Food and water bowls are set out in odd places. Cats suffering from infectious diseases inhabit the kitchen. A dozen of the menagerie are cripples, three are one-eyed, one is a dwarf, and one has been classified as a homosexual. Many of the stragglers are brought in by neighborhood youngsters who have heard about the Milsters' cat colony...
This time, however, luck was on Harvard's side. The puck deflected off the stick with an odd bounce and wound up in the back of the Eagle net to tie the game...