Word: odd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...every great singer can sing at the Met." Bubbles: "Not every great singer wants to." Nor can every great singer walk away from $7.5 million worth of bookings in order to retire, then take over a troubled opera company and make it lively and profitable. Sills concludes with an odd admission: "Unemployment still scares the daylights out of me." It is a state she is never likely to experience...
...concerned and curious citizenry gathers in an electronic version of a Colonial town meeting to watch their elected representatives grill Government officials, high and low, about a sorry episode in contemporary history. The viewing can be painful yet mysteriously exhilarating, boring at times yet somehow fascinating. It is an odd self- flagellation, but out of it can emerge a catharsis. The Government's secrets are exposed, its actions explained, condoned or condemned. The issue is faced. The nation moves...
...under great pressure from both the black majority and the outside world, Botha in that same year grudgingly drew up a list of what he called reforms. Some were of considerable significance, though they consisted mainly of canceling a few of the more obnoxious harassments sanctioned by the 200-odd apartheid laws. The law excluding blacks from official labor unions was rescinded in 1979 (about l million are now members). The law forbidding interracial marriage went in 1985. The hated passbooks, which sharply restricted a black's right to travel and find a new job, were abolished last year. Other...
...turned into a film. It is hard to imagine anyone doing a better job. The adaptation, written by Ronald Ribman and directed by Fielder Cook, takes a few careful liberties with Bellow's story but packs its essence into a compact, ruefully funny and tensely moving 90 minutes. In odd but inspired casting, Robin Williams plays Tommy and delivers the best dramatic performance of his career. In past roles, Williams has sometimes seemed mechanical and pinched. Here his hyperactive face and vocal tics are orchestrated into a wrenching picture of panic and desperation...
From the determination with which he ate his hot dog, to the Super Bowl Ring-sized finger, to the agility he showed reaching into his pocket to extract the money for his greens fee, he had the tell-tale signs of a champion. But I did notice something odd; he seemed to favor his right rotator cuff when he lifted his golf bag. I wasn't surprised when, three years later, an injury to that self-same area knocked Jimbo out for the season. McMahon slipped out the door ostensibly because his tee time had arrived; of course...