Word: odd
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February, they say, brings couples into Harvard laboratories, junior common rooms and lecture halls at odd hours of the day and night to consummate their desire. Happening upon a female and male undergraduate and a TF, or (on one notorious occasion) two professors in flagrante is one of the hazards of duty...
...book. His pals, who miss and worry about him, mass at a provincial mansion to try and find out what is afoot. This ragtag cabal scans shards of Vowl's writings, an amalgam of mumbo-jumbo, looking for hints. Will chaos or stark fatality confront all participants of this odd squad of misfits, drawn inward in companionship to look for a missing Vowl...
...course, for those Americans who have known since the Night of the White Bronco that the opening of the O.J. Simpson trial would do more to suck up leisure time than all the debates over the balanced-budget amendment and observations about the odd January weather combined, the high courtroom drama was the big payoff. But those who had cynically decided in advance that the so-called trial of the century would be nothing more than an interminable media fest were guilty of, to use Johnnie Cochran's new favorite phrase, ``a rush to judgment...
...Jack's jobs is to keep Charlotte Bless occupied and out of the reporters' hair. She is a fading beauty with the odd habit of initiating epistolary love affairs with death-row killers. Hillary has become her favorite, and her boxes of clippings and court transcripts about his case sparked the journalists interest in the story. Spending time with an attractive woman who pines for a convicted murderer wears on Jack's young nerves: "You may have seen dogs rolling on something dead in the grass, wanting the scent in their coats. That was the way I wanted...
Cecil Taylor always felt the injustice of his financial situation. While a chamber musician recording the standard repertoire of classical music over and over again could support himself and his family quite nicely in the postwar years, a true innovator like Taylor had to support himself by odd jobs--he sold everything from records to deli sandwiches. However, he had predicted early on that he would eventually earn the salary of a decent chamber musician. By the 1970s, with growing recognition in Europe and Japan, this prediction finally came true...