Word: odd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...order. No graffiti. The hiss of the spray gun is not heard in the land. And the military! During the Games, it was almost as if a vast box of soldiery had been tipped up and its contents deposited over the city. Often one saw them in odd places-militiamen standing in a clump of shrubbery or on the side of a hill, as if wherever they had landed they were obliged to stand up and assume their duties. Around the athletic facilities, the constabulary and army were heavily concentrated. The first seats of the stands in Lenin Stadium were...
...Americans are not here to compete. Every tourist at a Moscow Olympic event finds himself brought up short when he looks out and fails to see the deep-blue warm-up suits with the red-and-white USA on the back of the jerseys. The reaction has had its odd consequences. One tourist group in Leningrad last week began singing God Bless America in the hotel bar - "It made us feel good," one of them told me - and last night about 20 of them had planned to meet and sing the same song in Red Square, near the guards...
...family - his father (Martin Mull) as a harassed hotel manager, his grandmother (Ruth Gordon) as a dotty eccentric. Actor-Producer Tony Bill, in his directorial debut, gets good use out of his Chicago locations, and he has an unmushy view of teen-age life. Grownups may feel a trifle odd stepping up to the box office for this one if unescorted by a child but, with one along, may find surprising dividends. My Bodyguard is a picture that an adult can take a youth to without feeling either patronizing or embarrassed. These days, that is a rarity...
Merrill Lynch's diversifications have kept the company and Regan the odd men out in Wall Street's clubby investment fraternity. Says the head of a competing firm: "I think Regan believes that big is better. Merrill Lynch gets by just because of its size. At other firms, it is talent that counts...
...Ernie Banks, who had a lot of field goals in his time, was not the only biggie there that day. Bill Veeck was sitting right behind me. Now Bill is the manager of the other baseball team in Chicago, the Twins. I thought it was rather odd that he should be at a Cubs game. So I went up to him and asked why he was there. He told me he was a big baseball fan and he didn't care who was playing so long as someone was. Well, I didn't buy that, so I asked...