Word: odd
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...York, Lemmon worked various odd jobs, including a food checker and an emcee in a music hall...
...ideas weren't very unconventional, but they were unconventional," she says. "I think many people just thought I was a little odd...
EDENTON, N.C.: Sex abuse charges have been dropped against Little Rascals Day Care Center owner Robert Kelly and cook Kathryn Wilson, eight years after tales of odd sex games at the nursery school fueled child abuse fears nationwide. Having seen their children relive their experiences at the hands of Kelly and his employees during an earlier trial, parents were reluctant to have them testify again, prosecutors said. A whopping 429 counts of sexual abuse against 29 children were brought against Kelly, his wife Elizabeth, and five other adults in the original 1989 case. Although Kelly and Wilson were sentenced...
...American art, social memory can surface in odd, oblique ways. There is no big commemorative painting--or none of any merit--that shows a battle from the worst trauma in the country's history, the Civil War. In fact, the best Civil War painting doesn't show a war and has only one figure in it. It is The Veteran in a New Field, 1865, by Winslow Homer (1836-1910). In an earlier America, there wasn't even much past to remember; there are no Puritan monuments, for instance, except for individual gravestones. Memory had to be imported. This...
...arguments pro and con are by now well known. One side points out that when a man has over 35,000 photographs taken of him and exactly two show him in a wheelchair, we can fairly conclude that he was intent upon concealing his disability. How odd, then, to honor a man by portraying him precisely opposite to the way he wanted to be seen...