Word: odd
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Perot's sudden withdrawal from the race he had never officially entered left many supporters across the country feeling betrayed. Their grand, impractical crusade seemed to fall victim to the most grimy practical considerations: Perot's inability to rev up his stalled candidacy. Hamilton Jordan and Ed Rollins, his odd-couple team of political handlers, were frustrated by the candidate's unwillingness to be handled. First Jordan was said to be heading for the door, but at midweek it was Rollins who actually left, thwarted by Perot's rejection of a pricey ad campaign. Then, suddenly, Perot himself was gone...
...Wetlaufer should have drawn more on her broad experiences in journalism to make Judgment Call a richer newspaper novel. The book would have profited from more to the flavor of a major metropolitan daily newsroom novel. Newspapers attract odd characters like a magnet, but Wetlaufer shares with us only a precious few stories that don't directly relate to the main plot. The reader wonders if there was other news in Miami during the time Sherry was reporting her story...
...SOUNDS sort of odd when you says, I'm digging up Harvard Yard," Stubbs says. But the Yard is, in many ways, a perfect excavation site. The area has been continuously occupied for more than 350 years, and is the only site in North American that has been preserved this well...
...coming weeks, as construction workers refill this trench and dig another deep hole from Matthews to University Hall, Stubbs will be working outside. he will be sifting through dirt, collection odd fragments of galls and clay and, perhaps, imagining the last great Yard party...
...Perot didn't answer the questions about his own inconsistencies. He didn't answer the question bout his own tolerance. He didn't defend the rather odd corporate strictures of the company where he made his billions...