Word: odd
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Parisian cafes, he recognized what was indelible about graffiti, the bad penmanship of the group unconscious. In his photographs of the stick figures and screaming heads carved and scribbled on Paris walls, you find the most unruly human impulses--sex, anger, even exaltation--brought alive and made legible in odd corners...
...shield professors and administrators from situations in which their private interests or the interests that attach to their offices might distort their judgment. In this context it is curious to hear the associate provost of Harvard University downplay the reach and significance of his administrative position. It is odd to witness the director of the Program in Ethics and the Professions depreciate the importance of fundamental norms of fair process. And it is false and insulting for Prof. Thompson to suggest that asking Harvard to respect its own procedures and the worthy principles embodied in them presents an affront...
Geneticists have lately been filing patent applications for these ESTs anyway, figuring that it's best to protect their turf now and go spelunking around in it later. In a science that prizes precision above all else, this can be an odd way to do business. "I would guess that in many cases the scientists didn't even examine all the material," says Bruce Lehman, commissioner of the Patent and Trademark Office...
...looks, is singing an aria from Charpentier's Louise. Suddenly it's 1986, and members of the Bolshoi Ballet are dancing an exuberant pas de deux. H.G. Wells' time machine? No, Classic Arts Showcase: MTV for gourmets. The commercial-free service can be hard to find--it airs at odd hours, mostly on PBS or public access cable channels--but the search yields a feast. Opera, dance, chamber music, theater and more are presented in a beguiling spread of video clips. So surf that dial, comb that TV Guide. Caruso and Domingo, Lillian Gish and Paul Robeson, the Canadian Brass...
...been the beneficiary of the fact that it has been too awkward for Clinton to remove her." Her departure would have set off a series of acrimonious congressional hearings, at her successor's nomination proceedings, over some of the administration's alleged campaign improprieties. "It is an odd form of job security," says Cohen...