Word: odd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...explanation for the increased candor is that this is the first election in 20 years in which a sitting President is not running. In an overcrowded field only now beginning to narrow, candidates and their strategists have all had to be supplicants for the press's attention. How odd that a significant campaign moment should be the Bush camp's decision to sass back CBS's Dan Rather and that Bush should proudly describe the encounter as "Tension City...
...Moore's keep-calm advice seemed odd given those figures, EPA's strategy for removing or sealing the asbestos appeared even more so. Citing limited resources to dispose of the material and the need to deal first with school buildings, the agency recommended a period of evaluation before the nation launches a cleanup that could cost $51 billion. Democratic Representative James Florio of New Jersey said EPA is "sweeping this alarming problem under...
...odd paradoxes about Superman is that while he is a hero of nostalgia, the constant changes in his character keep destroying the qualities that make him an object of nostalgia. "For one bright, brief moment, we had a hero right there, and then we lost him, dammit," laments one disillusioned enthusiast, Marshall Fishwick, who teaches communications at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. "You have to look back to the '30s for the real thing. There are too many M.B.A.s now and not enough Supermans...
...balance gravity and centrifugal force as one set of skates slices within inches of another, spectators have found an appealing amount of danger. There is less of it than in aerial skiing, which is as much a sport as cliff diving in Acapulco, but much more than in that odd amalgam of shuffleboard and housecleaning called curling. In the current heat of demonstration sports, short-track skating seems worthiest to win normal- event status...
...situation in South Africa becomes more and more desperate, one wonders if the only way to prompt American action would be for the South African government to accept Soviet aid. There certainly seems to be an odd correlation between Soviet interest in a government and the administration's discovery that the citizens are oppressed, dissatisfied and want U.S. intervention...