Word: odd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...read the plain-English versions and then the coded versions of messages, and thus crack U.S. codes and read American diplomatic cables throughout the world. Moreover, inspections of the new U.S. embassy building now under construction have turned up plenty of signs of bugs: cables seemingly unconnected to anything, odd indentations in wall panels, steel reinforcing rods so arranged as to convert structural pillars into antennas...
That is because the pieces echo each other in odd, intriguing ways. Gordon returns habitually, hypnotically, to a small number of predicaments. There is the pain and bewilderment felt by young girls who have lost their fathers, either through death or abandonment. One such victim remembers being forced to attend birthday parties and dreading them "as I did the day of judgment (real to me; the wrong verdict might mean that I would never see my father)." Other stories rehearse the misgivings of women who have fallen in love with previously married men. They wonder what the departed wives found...
WHILE THEIR alliance may seem odd, the position both sides rally around is perfectly defensible and not all that new. However, the rub is that theirs is a purely philosophical argument, the direct result of their reflections upon human nature and notions of individuality: What is a woman? they ask. Is she first and foremost an autonomous individual, a member of a sex or a constituent part of a broader community...
Strange odors sometimes wafted from the grimy yellow brick house in the Tioga section of North Philadelphia, smells that neighbors likened to burning flesh. Then there were the odd noises: hammering at all hours, and what sounded like an electric saw and other power tools. Heavy-metal music blared day and night. But no one suspected the horrors that Philadelphia police discovered last week . when they raided the house owned by Gary Heidnik, 43, a self-anointed "bishop" of his own church who flashed rolls of money and drove expensive cars...
...manages to see behave strangely: "In each there has occurred a sloughing away of the old terrors, worries, rages, a shedding of guilt like last year's snakeskin, and in its place is a mild fond vacancy, a species of unfocused animal good spirits." Among the victims of this odd malady is Tom's second wife Ellen, who in his enforced absence has become a star on the tournament bridge circuit. She has developed the ability to compute exactly the location of all cards in the hands of her partner and opponents. She speaks in two-word sentences and flaunts...