Word: odd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...odd effect: Reagan's powerful connection with the American psychology now takes on a negative charge. In a way that would have seemed inconceivable not long ago, op-ed writers venture to speak well of Jimmy Carter. One senses uneasily a return of the world Americans thought they had left behind when Carter went back to Plains...
American history in the past 100 years has arranged itself in the cycles with an odd neatness. A period of economic depression, war, social change and activism has generally been followed by a spasm of reactionary backlash, followed by a time of consolidation, relative calm and prosperity...
...Huntington Avenue to allow fund-raisers to clean two of the streets from 11 a.m. until 2 a.m. that Saturday to raise money for the hungry. Because of the large numbers of volunteers, students will also be assigned to smaller satellite sites around Boston and Cambridge where, among other odd jobs, they will help clean homeless shelters...
...stand around looking internationally handsome. But Riggs is Max's psychological cousin, a man whose wild-eyed courage is based on having witnessed so much cruelty that he no longer cares whether he lives or dies. Gibson knows just how to temper the gaga energy of such figures with odd bursts of sweet innocence...
When Chloe arrives, odd woman out, Western and husbandless in the tight society of Iranian and American couples at the medical dormitories, she finds that Hugh is unaccountably missing. She takes pleasure in her disappointment: "With Hugh not there she could pay in advance for anticipated pleasures, pay by uncertainty, solitude, and serious study, in a land hostile to women, far from her children, in an ugly room. What destiny could then begrudge her just a little fling?" Such a question, in the context of Iran, turns out to be poignantly beside the point...