Word: odd
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Buchanan may seem like an odd choice for this work, but he actually meshes well with the feeling Updike wants to evoke about the Ford years. In describing this era, Alf is more concerned with himself than the world around him. Ford wasn't a monster and he wasn't a hero; he provokes no more interest in himself than that he stewarded the country during Alf's life. The same with Buchanan. He might have had a more profound effect on the country's history than Ford, but he didn't provoke much interest in himself--the bulk...
Theaters are warm, fuzzy, happy places, and I am partial to the odd excursion to them. Not that your mate Tony prides himself on great stores of dramatic knowledge; few mental cogs are engaged in the Gubba grey matter by play talk. But you've got to have some conversational material for Saturday morning beyond the carroty looking stain on your trousers...
...bedroom where the only television in the house stood at the foot of her bed. If you wanted to watch Ed Sullivan, and I did, you also had to watch grandmother, commercials and morphine injections coming at regular intervals. It was a situation that, to a child, seemed neither odd nor morbid," notes playwright Scott McPherson in the program for Marvin's Room. The bluntness in McPherson's art may well be that of a child but it is also one of a brilliant craftsman...
Marvin's Room has all the makings for an odd and morbid play. Bessie, who takes care of her bedridden father Marvin and her disabled Aunt Ruth, finds out she herself is seriously ill. She reluctantly accepts the help of her long-estranged sister Lee and her two "problem" children, an older boy currently in a mental institution, and a younger one who would rather read 24 hours a day than deal with the people around...
...campaign trail Watt traverses his odd-shaped district -- it looks like a road-kill salamander -- in a shiny Dodge minivan, stopping to shake hands, wolf down fried fish and cheese puffs at dinnertime rallies, and spread his message: "We can't continue to widen the disparity between the haves at the top and the have-nots at the bottom." Watt well knows the have-not side of that great divide. He grew up near Charlotte in a tin-roofed home with no electricity or running water. But he went on to law school at Yale and a career...