Word: odd
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...authors of the Massachusetts bill are the odd couple of American feminism. Michigan law professor Catharine MacKinnon is sleek and stylishly dressed-for-success. Writer Andrea Dworkin (Pornography: Men Possessing Women and Intercourse), with her tousled hair and overalls-and-T-shirt decor, looks like a radical from...
...weeks, Los Angeles County abruptly canceled a perfectly legitimate railcar contract with Sumitomo, a Japanese company. Next, major-league baseball reacted with disdain to a Japanese offer to buy the failing Seattle baseball team. Baseball, said the game's commissioner, countenanced only North American ownership. It is a rather odd America-first policy that counts Canada as an American appendage. Odd too that a sport so bent on maintaining national purity should play in a park where Barry Bonds is announced as the "voltigeur de gauche" and the foul lines are demarcated in meters...
Brown has been able to convey an authentic outsider mentality despite the fact that two years ago he was the head procurer for the Sacramento branch of the professional political class. The chairmanship of the California Democratic Party was an odd job for someone who had never slapped a back and who once vowed to limit state lobbyists to "two hamburgers and a Coke." His tenure there is now held up by party regulars as an example of unprincipled ambition. But Brown looks back at the two-year stint as party chairman like an alcoholic at his last binge...
Faludi: In an odd way I was playing more by the boys' rules -- saying, O.K., you men will listen to data and "rational arguments" and statistics, and the body of evidence will convince...
Clurman found ample evidence for concluding that this odd couple, Nicholas and Ross, would not find happiness together. Almost simultaneously with the book's publication, Time Warner's board of directors, largely though not solely at the instigation of ailing Steve Ross, abruptly sacked Nicholas and installed the more cerebral, smoother Levin as Ross's new co-CEO. Does that mean the media giant will now achieve the greatness its masters predict for it? A onetime consultant to both companies tells Clurman: "The merger may turn out to be one of the most brilliant business moves in their history...