Word: odd
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This rhetoric, while tame by the standards of the 1988 campaign, comes at an odd moment: two new reports last week showed the budget deficit widening to as much as $200 billion. Only last month, Bush invited leaders of both parties on Capitol Hill to join him in budget talks, in which all participants could propose necessary but unpopular tax increases and spending cuts without fear of political attack. Bush wants a bipartisan budget agreement to get himself off the hook of his most famous campaign pledge: to cut the deficit without raising taxes. Yet his renewed donkey bashing makes...
Like his most famous play, The House of Blue Leaves, John Guare's wry new off-Broadway work concerns the almost mystical longing of the unfamous for contact with celebrities. The odd title derives from a theory that any two people, no matter how distant in geography or circumstance, are linked by a chain of acquaintances: A knows B, who knows C, and so on. Thus the most renowned figure will turn out to be a friend of a friend of a friend. When a well-spoken young black man bursts into a Manhattan millionaire couple's home, bleeding from...
DOES HE DARE TO DRINK A TOAST? Novelist Valentin Rasputin strikes many as an odd choice to serve on Mikhail Gorbachev's new advisory presidential council. Rasputin's writings and speeches are often chauvinistically Russian and, according to some, anti-Semitic. But officials in Moscow think they have discovered the reason for Rasputin's elevated post. Raisa Gorbachev is a big fan of his books. A question now making the Kremlin rounds: Does every Czarina need her Rasputin...
...rusting old van in a public campground 2,000 miles away from her home, Janet Adkins faced death last week. It took the form of an odd-looking contraption made mostly of three dripping bottles, the invention of a Detroit doctor named Jack Kevorkian. As Adkins settled down on a small cot, she was attended by Kevorkian. He hooked her up to a heart monitor, slid an intravenous needle into her arm and started a harmless saline solution flowing through the tube. Then he sat back and watched the monitor as she pushed a big red button at the base...
...Occasionally he stirs, his eyes focus, and in tidy, cramped handwriting he adds a sentence or two to the notebook, already largely filled. To a visitor the pages look vaguely familiar. Then realization dawns. The black-inked notations and tidy sketches of winged and wheeled vehicles, streamlined contours and odd mechanisms are startlingly reminiscent of the famous illustrated notes penned by Leonardo da Vinci five centuries...