Word: odd
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With such a large period to cover and only 350-odd pages in which to do it, Gonick pulls off a spectacular feat by making history both readable and meaningful. The cartoon medium is uniquely suited to describing the essential facts of history and conveying a sense of everyday life in the ancient world. Because he can show us how people dressed, cut their hair, furnished their homes and conducted their religious ceremonies, Gonick can concentrate on using his text for historical or scientific narrative and explanation...
True enough. But the hearing had some odd ripples. One unintended result was to make North something of a national hero. And in the end, the congressional investigators failed to elicit from Poindexter hard information about Ronald Reagan's complicity. That remains murky. Former Senator John Tower, who headed a special Iran-contra investigative commission that operated independently of Congress, suggests in his upcoming memoirs that Reagan was directly involved in a "deliberate" cover-up effort...
According to a Bloomingdales official, most of the packages were sent by people who knew no one in the Persian Gulf, but just wanted to send their support. A bit odd, perhaps, but not surprising when you consider that the typical infantry soldier is unlikely to be part of the Bloomingdales class...
Rubin's remarks do touch on one point of substance, and that is the frequency and regularity with which a capella concerts are held in Sanders Theater. It does seem odd that one genre of student activity would dominate Sanders, which in terms of size and acoustics is undeniably the best performance space at Harvard. There is, however, a simple reason for this...
...reading diet: the Utne Reader, an alternative Reader's Digest stuffed with provocative articles gleaned mostly from the country's left- < leaning and fringe press. Founded six years ago, the Minneapolis-based bimonthly has become a handbook for baby boomers, new agers and whole earthers, as well as the odd eclectic middle-of-the-roader. Says television essayist Bill Moyers, an inveterate reader: "I wish I had invented it. It's sort of like an underground railroad of ideas...