Word: odd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like clearance sales simply because stores are usually left with odd-sized or clothes no one wants to buy," says Claverly resident Jon A. Stein...
Unfortunately, in the thirty-odd years since the debut of The African Queen, the standards of the academy have taken a drastic nosedive. To see just how low Mr. Oscar has been forced to stoop, take a glance at Hannah and Her Sisters (Nickelodeon, Harvard Square). Hannah may very well be the best picture to be nominated for this year's "best picture," but that is more a reflection on its feeble competition than on the film itself. Another in a series of Woody Allen's ruminations of life, love, death and the Big Apple, this movie features very little...
...Norma and Tony painstakingly covered themselves with spermicides, condoms and latex squares before engaging in intercourse. The film was so cautiously clinical that a group of viewers quickly lost interest in Norma and Tony, and even in sex for that matter, focusing instead on the number and variety of odd-textured and -shaped devices employed...
Furthermore, MacDonald does not come off all that bookish anyway. Show business, not literature, is the common ground on which this epistolary odd couple meet and swagger and josh heartily. They are put in touch by a mutual friend, the wife of Novelist Erskine Caldwell. Before long MacDonald is asking Rowan's guidance on film and TV deals for his books; Rowan reciprocates by playing back studio goings-on for MacDonald's hard-boiled appraisal. When Laugh-In takes off, the novelist watches at home in Florida with a note pad at hand, sending Rowan comments and suggestions...
Burgess's story matters because he survived to become one of England's most important postwar novelists. It entertains because it is crammed with odd, intriguing information: recipes for old-fashioned Lancashire dishes, Malayan expressions for a variety of sexual acts, the crotchety digressions of an inexhaustibly curious mind. "I suppose," Burgess writes, "that a novelist who produces an autobiography has a right to expect that most of its readers will also be readers of his fiction." In this case, he is wrong. People who have never heard of Anthony Burgess, much less John Burgess Wilson, can easily find this...