Word: odd
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...BOTTOM LINE: Tony Randall and Jack Klugman play another odd couple -- but this time the laughs are like hen's teeth...
Peaceful protest belongs at Commencement. Nothing about the event makes it inherently more exalted than any other. An invitation to speak at Commencement, or an honorary degree, need not be an endorsement. In recent history, graduates haven't submitted to high standards of decorum. People decorate their mortarboards with odd accessories...
...sports page is not a carefully crafted conspiracy. We are a small pedal-to-the-metal staff of humans, after all. Even though our job is specifically to prevent mistakes from happening, Tarek and I aren't perfect either. Like lacrosse goalies, we handle shot after shot, but that odd one will sneak by us. The readers have set a high goal for us--to be perfect. And we do our damnedest to reach that goal...
...with one intermission during the two-and-a-half-hour extravaganza, he threw in a second, just to flesh things out. Perhaps he wanted to give suicidal viewers an opportunity to make a bid for freedom. The acting was usually wooden, and the transparent attempts to throw in the odd whimsical flourish served only to emphasize how staid and slow the production was. No amount of thought-provoking direction and visionary acting can compensate for the basic dramatic necessity of maintaining brisk and lively delivery...
Afterward, in the Ranger locker room, his medical-marvel right arm wrapped in an ice pack, Ryan grew pensive. What bothered him, as he looked ahead to his record 27th and, alas, final big-league season, was not the intimations of his own baseball mortality but rather the odd sensation of pitching to five- time batting champion Wade Boggs in a Yankee uniform. For 11 seasons, Boggs was as much a part of the Boston Red Sox as the fabled Green Monster wall in Fenway Park's left field. Now he had changed to pinstripes (part of the off- season...