Word: odd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...denial has been peeling away slowly for several years. An odd breakthrough occurred last January after the extravagantly emotional, almost giddy welcome home that America staged for the 52 hostages from Iran. The nation was an orgy of yellow ribbons and misting eyes. But then, a few days later, a countertheme surfaced. Viet Nam veterans watched the spectacle of welcome (the routes of motorcades lined with cheering, weeping Americans, the nation glued to its TV sets, the new President doing the hostages proud in the Rose Garden) and their years of bitterness boiled up to a choked cry: WHERE...
...acquisition makes sense for both sides. United Artists seemed the odd man out in Transamerica's financial services company. Heaven's Gate had demoralized the firm and caused a management shakeup. MGM was attracted to UA because it owns a library of about 2,000 old films that can be sold to cable TV. MGM executives also want to control United Artists' worldwide distribution network, since they will now collect the distributor's 30% cut of their movies' gross ticket sales. Says Merrill Lynch Vice President Harold Vogel: "The merger means MGM will...
...Joseph Conrad called one of those "unwholesome looking little moral agents of destruction" that now form a recognizable tribe: odd human blanks with politics one centimeter deep and no Dostoyevskian depths at all; well-dressed young men who move around the democratic world on jet planes with forged passports, flipping through small-arms catalogues. That tribe seems to be getting denser and more dangerous. Or at least that is what Agca last week wanted the world to think...
...disdains the personae of the macho and the wimp. Burt Reynolds is out - even to Burt Reynolds. Waiting around for the beloved to make up her mind is equally unwise. The role model here is Michael Caine, "a nice guy who isn't afraid to admit to the odd doubt, the sudden fear." A film critic, Schickel prefers to collect aphorisms from actors rather than philosophers. Dudley Moore is heard in praise of "the meaningful one-night stand." Woody Allen analyzes those who labor on their liaisons: "I always think they're wrong. The things that are really...
...this terminal case of non sequitur? Bungling in the bindery? Or should blame-and credit-be assigned to the Organization for the Electronic Production of Homogenized Literary Works, operating out of New York to reduce all fiction to One Novel? Or is the erratic anthology the fault of an odd chap named Ermes Marana, who dashes about the world scribbling novels in native languages and native styles, then dashes home to translate them...