Word: odd
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that I've made it out of Central Park alive, what have I resolved to do in 1999? I've got to admit, those vegetables are still nagging at me. Now that I've tried some of the 30-odd recipes readers have sent me for Brussels sprouts, I'm looking for a couple of good ones for bok choy...
Travel writing involves an odd social contract: writer, for pay, agrees to view inspirational scenery and have a great time, saving reader the trouble of doing so. But Mark Hertsgaard's contract was odder than most. A few years ago, the journalist, who has written books on the Reagan Administration, nuclear energy and the Beatles, set off on a trip around the world in search of noxious vistas and pollutive sunsets--the environmental wreckage that other travelers take pains to avoid. His clear-eyed report, Earth Odyssey (Broadway Books; 372 pages; $26), backed by careful scholarship...
...furnish instruction and collegiate life and (2) to promote higher education for women. Note that the original two purposes from 1882 were not replaced or terminated by this amendment, just added to. Therefore, one assumes that the original idea of dissolution was still on the table. Indeed, the current, odd arrangement of admitting women to Radcliffe and then reenrolling them in Harvard could be interpreted as a lawyerly maneuver to get around this very provision...
...special unit to deal with Millennium-related malfeasance. The psychiatric authorities too are expecting their own Y2K deluge -- they're anticipating a sharp increase in the "Jerusalem Syndrome," in which around 50 tourists a year are seized by the delusion that they're a reincarnated Biblical figure. The odd Solomon or Job won't cause much alarm, but there are also an awful lot of warriors in the Good Book...
...TELETUBBIES (PBS) The most imaginative children's show to come along in years, Teletubbies features soft, bouncy creatures in an odd green world and seems like a perfect projection of the toddler sensibility. Its greatest brainstorm: repeating films immediately after showing them, just as a two-year-old wants...