Word: odd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that it's a museum piece. Port Tropique remains an adventure story. But it is an adventure story stripped of almost everything but certain odd luminous moments and executed with such shrewd knowingness, such literary hipness that it becomes "experimental" and "artistic...
...unfair tax burdens first, general pocketbook frustrations second, and "government" only a distant third. But the failure of many orthodox liberals to take tax grievances seriously and their reflexive concern with defending the level of government outlays rather than their quality, drove many working-class constituents into an odd alliance with right-wing populists of the Jarvis stripe and later with business conservatives...
...must ultimately be lievein individual Americans: those countless citizens who, despite all the doubts, the heedlessness, the disorder of the society, go about their lives with courage and patience, slangy competence and cheerful persistence, with some larceny and some anger and some kindness ? and above all with the odd conviction that their country is still an experiment and that it must stand for something beyond mere survival. These are not exclusive American virtues, but they are human virtues with a very American accent, and they surely must inspire a sense of love and hope...
Involving Hussein is important not only because of his potential ability to serve as a surrogate for West Bank Palestinians. It is also important that the Arab-Israeli peace process take on a more multinational cast, thus easing the onus on Egypt's Anwar Sadat as the odd man out in the Arab world. Sadat's isolation makes him politically vulnerable both to internal enemies, like Muslim fundamentalists, and to external foes, like the irrepressible Gaddafi. Sadat's troubles are economic as well as political; he would be in a better position to deliver his long-promised...
...Frangois Truffaut Screenplay by Frangois Truffaut, Suzanne Schiffman and Jean-Claude Grumberg Here Francois Truffaut does for theater people what he did for film folk in 1973's Day for Night: he makes charming sense of their idiosyncrasies in a story that combines amused tolerance for their odd ways with a tender regard for their idealism. The earlier film showed how a movie company on location seals itself off from the outside world and creates its own vivid reality. The Last Metro focuses on a theatrical company trying to operate in German-occupied Paris during World War II while...