Word: odd
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Bob Dole jokes with Jay Leno about his disputes with the president, this sends a disturbing message about the nature of Washington. Legitimate political debate is relegated to the realm of humor. Dole can, with an odd sort of detachment, declare that all the fierce debate of Capitol Hill is really just a show, and that after hours he is really a friend of his political enemies. If it is a show, why should the American people take it seriously once the actors reveal it as an illusion? Will the voting public simply forget about the issues underlying political...
Bill Clinton and his Secretary of State are an odd couple. The President has never met a crowd he believed impervious to his smarts and charm; he is never more alive than in front of the cameras as the Oprah of health care and unemployment. Warren Christopher, a natural introvert old enough to be Clinton's father, glides into a room as silently as a monk. His gravelly monotone and wrinkled poker face give nothing away, his mobile eyes are friendly but curiously unreadable. His Establishment-lawyer virtues come not from the era of MTV but from the days...
Bobby Shaw cannot remember when the voices started talking to him. Growing up in impoverished, rural Missouri, he had always been an odd boy, slow yet sometimes excitable, likable but strange. Bobby often wandered into the homes of others; he would sit in their living rooms, as if he lived there, until his father came and got him -- and punished him. "I thought if I whupped him, he would think harder the next time," Bobby's father David told a social worker. Bobby's sister Martha, two years his junior, helped him through first grade after he flunked it twice...
...until Bobby came home from prison the first time that his behavior became more than odd. "He wasn't the same person," says his mother Ruby. He wouldn't stay in his room at night. "He'd pack all his clothes and his shoes in a paper bag and walk out. I'd ask, 'Where you goin'?' He'd say, 'I don't know where I'm goin'. I got to get away from those people in my room.' I'd say, 'Child, nobody is talkin' to you in your room. You've just been around too many people...
...wife Geri and their two teenagers still based at the family home in Northern California, Eszterhas typically has shuttled from hotel room to interview to fax machine, firing off bulletins about his romance with Naomi Macdonald and about William Macdonald's with Stone. Last week the two new odd couples found themselves at a somewhat intense 10-foot distance of each other during Sliver's post-premiere party in Los Angeles...