Word: odd
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While Griffey has the potential to hit 62 (he hit 56 last year), the fans haven't been pulling for him in the home-run race the way they have for McGwire. Which is odd, since Griffey is more popular. Even this year he got more All-Star votes from fans than McGwire. He's a better all-around player, more affable, more telegenic, more starlike, younger, hipper and more street than McGwire (though even Dan Quayle is more street than McGwire). Three of McGwire's black teammates refused to comment as to whether the attention to McGwire over Griffey...
...spot on the New York Times best-seller list. He's one of only six authors to have had books at the top of both the fiction and nonfiction lists. Even odder, one of each of the other authors' books seems to have an odd resonance with a Buffett album...
...which Brown and Galotti may also produce. "You don't have to be a genius to look at this project and understand how successful it's going to be," Galotti explains. Many observers agree that the move is a bold and brilliant one; a few see it as odd and maybe even foolish: Brown is either a visionary or months away from being just another Hollywood Jane with a development deal. Some see the new venture as the ultimate consummation of journalism's fascination with celebrity and glamour, of the notion that the news should be at least as entertaining...
...relationship, stupid. We've always accepted the fact that it would be intensified from time to time by the interruptions of various noisy MacGuffins--wacky car chases, imploding and exploding urban structures, the odd psychopath or two. But what we liked was solid, stolid Roger Murtaugh (Danny Glover) trying to cope with the erratic behavior of his partner, Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson), who didn't much care whether he lived or died and therefore courted death with alarming candor...
...trombone, instrument of military marches and patriotic small town parades, seems like an odd companion for a Cambridge summer night...