Word: odd
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rather classical-looking piece he is setting to a showy swatch of Saint-Saens. When people start tiring, he is reluctant to lose momentum, but when he offers a choice of beverages or minuets in mock airline- ese, the choice is soft drinks. The ensemble work looks odd at first because Morris rarely distinguishes between men and women. Boy may lift girl, or another boy. The dancers love...
...Jones brings his bearlike charisma to the role of an ex-con who becomes an investigator for a defense attorney in Gabriel's Fire. But the writers do him no service, with pretentious narration ("Where am I? I look around and it feels like a dream") and a predictable odd-couple relationship with the yuppie lawyer he works for (Laila Robins). CBS's Evening Shade, meanwhile, has recruited such veterans as Burt Reynolds, Hal Holbrook and Elizabeth Ashley to breathe some life into an overbaked Southern sitcom...
...good for a suit of clothes, or a railroad ticket, or the rent money, when someone was down on his luck. After the Depression, my father told me, F.H. made no effort to collect debts. He had never been much good at retrieving his money, which was odd for a man who in one lifetime used up all his family's financial-brilliance genes for several generations to come. While he was still a boy learning English in Michigan, he lent money he had saved for college to a friend -- a Yankee, the town history reports -- who skipped town...
...Have a beer, sit down in the gray sandstone grit, but do not attempt to reopen the great debate over whether the dinosaurs were wiped out at the end of the Cretaceous period by a huge comet or a vast cloud of volcanic dust or any of 80-odd other proposed killers, all of which Horner spurns. He has a rubber stamp that says, WHO GIVES A S--- WHAT KILLED THE DINOSAURS? Horner cares about how they lived...
That should be no surprise -- even though the call-ups are the first in 20 years. It is virtually impossible today for the U.S. to sustain a military undertaking the size of the buildup in the Persian Gulf without mobilizing some of the million-odd weekend warriors. Until 1976, no reserves could be activated unless the President or Congress declared a national emergency. But the law now permits the White House to call as many as 200,000 reservists for an initial term of 90 days (easily stretchable to 180 days) without any proclamation...