Word: odd
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...asking for it. Its political system has long been based on the adage that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, or at least my coalition partner. Since 1984 Israel has claimed to have a government of national unity, a misnomer if ever there was one. The odd couple of Likud and Labor never had a unified position, or even reconcilable differences, on the most important issue of national security and national identity: What are the boundaries of the Jewish state...
This lingering sensitivity, which I am chagrined to confess, has been exaggerated by the cities where I have lived and the work that I do. Both New York and Washington revere the Ivy League like Club Med worships tanned bodies and a strong backhand. Odd how when visiting the Midwest I drop the University of Michigan into conversation with an avidity I rarely display back East. Lawyers and physicists may often rate colleagues by the quality of their professional education, but an enduring adult fascination with undergraduate pedigrees remains acute in the fields I know well, such as journalism...
...seem to forget this fact, using modern staging and language inappropriately. Often, the perfectly obvious bawdiness of many lines is unnecessarily exaggerated by lude gestures. Lines like, "I had to work off my butt to learn amo, amas, amat" have a disconcerting incongruity to them. And the costuming, an odd blend of blue jeans and Renaissance-like kitsch, is innovative without purpose...
...music is not customary hit material. It is a little too odd and altogether too witchy for these flighty, dance-heavy times. But a first hearing of Sinead O'Connor might tempt anyone to believe that, for the moment, lite...
...popularity of these honors concentrations is a little odd. Most do not offer their own courses, forcing you to take classes in other departments, the same classes that your "regular" friends are taking. You can still graduate with honors in a regular concentration, and you are not guaranteed honors in an honors concentration...