Word: odd
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...intuitive factoid, she was off, serving the throngs of hungry visitors. Eventually I found myself talking to Steven, a young employee at one of the Main Street stores. He agreed with Heather's assessment, but was at a loss when I suggested the park's Christmas popularity a bit odd. He, for one, had no problem working on Christmas. And by the way, just in case I was interested, wages started at $7.04 an hour. "It's really a lot of fun," Steven explained, sounding like one of those infomercial hosts, "I love it here...
...odd that Ovitz, co-founder of powerful Creative Artists Agency, would find himself out of his depth. Over the years, he had built a reputation as a shrewd, tough, almost omniscient leader. Besides representing an enviable list of major clients--Tom Cruise, Robert DeNiro, Dustin Hoffman, Warren Beatty--he ranged far beyond the traditional agent's role. He played a part in brokering Sony's acquisition of Columbia Pictures in 1989 and shepherded Matsushita into its purchase of MCA the following year--deals that soured for the buyers. In 1994 he engaged in highly publicized negotiations to take...
...eminent economists delivered an equivalent message to the government last week. The U.S. cost of living, said the panel, for years has been going up more slowly than the hallowed Consumer Price Index would suggest. One result is that the U.S. economy has been healthier for the past 20-odd years than anybody realized...
Markovic's favorite is now Marko, a race-car driver whom she calls "my wild young mustang." He owns a nightclub called Madona and by his own description loves loud music, women, cars and guns. His racing and gun-toting swagger seem in odd juxtaposition--or maybe not--to having missed out on military service when recruiters declared him mentally unstable. He is proud of his talent for crashing cars, however--30, at last count. "Daddy used to get angry until my 15th," Marko told the newsweekly Vreme. "And then he sort of gave...
...much like being a firefighter or a police officer," Mergendahl says. "The people that it attracts are naturally people that have to deal with all sorts of strange circumstances. Consequently, I don't know if it's a defense mechanism or what, you develop an odd sense of humor and a slightly strange way of looking at things...