Word: odd
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...equipment problems were nothing compared with Saddam's in the final days of the war. With military supplies and arms dwindling after numerous allied strikes, the Iraqis resorted to "an odd bit of desperation," according to a U.S. War College analyst. They launched a Scud missile at Israel that was topped with a 700-lb. chunk of concrete as its "warhead." The dud Scud buried itself harmlessly in the Negev desert...
...Simon's admission that they are based on historical models -- shoe magnate Harry Karl and starlet Marie ("the Body") McDonald, whose misadventures in multiple marriage titillated tabloid readers four decades ago -- renders the jolliness of his writing, and Rees' direction, all the more astonishing. They were, perhaps, a very odd couple, but not necessarily a fun couple...
There is future shock and also an odd familiarity in the scene: it has some of the feel of a Southern lynching -- an American throwback migrated to La La Land...
...masterminds behind these syrupy confections bristle at the critical drubbing their shows usually get. Miller, 46, a Milwaukee native, started out as an assistant to director Billy Wilder, then wrote episodes for The Odd Couple and The Brady Bunch. Boyett, also 46, grew up in Atlanta, moved to New York City to become a playwright and wound up as a program executive at ABC. They met when Miller was co-producing one of ABC's big hits of the '70s, Happy Days. Boyett later joined Miller (and his then partner Edward Milkis) to produce such shows as Laverne & Shirley, Mork...
...Frank Loesser and Phil Ochs, among others) and screenplay (its Art Deco building on Manhattan's 42nd Street was reporter Clark Kent's workplace in the Superman movies). For the tabloid's fans, Maxwell's moxie may prove congenial. He has shown a shrewd feel for the city's odd blend of worldliness and parochialism. Playing to Manhattanites' penchant for embracing almost any outsider who professes himself instantly smitten with their metropolis, Maxwell arrived by yacht to start negotiations and, before stepping into a waiting Cadillac, spoke the tantric words, "I love New York." Recalling the tradition of the News...