Word: odd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heroine? Practical. Idealistic. Self-deprecating. Humorous anecdotes about both her intestinal troubles and her intestinal fortitude inconveniencing everyone. One thinks -- as long as Kate Hepburn lives, so does the spirit of 19th century New England. Odd -- nice -- it took unlikely root in show biz. Physically her book is like her -- slender, handsome (many good pictures), irresistible. "Glory be," as she says...
...whistle through easily, but there are already warnings that ratification will be no cinch. If a treaty is signed in November, ratification debates may begin next February, precisely when the primary campaigns in both parties will be approaching fever pitch. The treaty could well come under fire from an odd coalition of Republican conservatives distrustful of any deal with Moscow and Democratic liberals eager to prove they are not soft on the Soviets...
...Democrats Howell Heflin of Alabama and Dennis DeConcini of Arizona. Last week DeConcini still did not know what to make of the controversial jurist. "I have read so much," he told TIME. "Sometimes he sounds like a moderate. At other times he seems -- well, his approach seems so odd. I think he and the nation are both entitled to a full hearing and explanation...
...given bits of national flavor -- Japanese-accented Esperanto, with upswept roof edges and exposed concrete beams formed into abstract "timbers." Isozaki's buildings of the '70s and '80s are the converse: instead of Japanizing a universal architectural style, he takes inspiration and ideas from anywhere he chooses, his odd, exciting syntheses unbound either by traditional or by antitraditional dogma. "I consider myself not a Japanese first," Isozaki says, "but rather an internationalist...
...mainstream," as Yokoo puts it, and he got plenty of work again. His sexy, creepy 1980 poster for a fashion show is typical of his more recent, dreamier work: a naked, bleached-out man and woman stand face to face against a yellow field, their eyes and ears an odd, coppery red. In 1982, with his "sense of crisis missing," Yokoo doubled back, leaving full-time design work to become a painter once again...