Word: odd
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...problem is David Thompson's book, with its tired cocktail of characters left over from They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, and an odd Twilight Zone chaser. Karen Ziemba combines Broadway pizazz with shy-girl vulnerability as a contestant who partners a stunt pilot (Daniel McDonald) but is secretly married to the marathon's slimy emcee (Gregory Harrison). The mix of nostalgia, cynicism and period artifice, however, keeps us at arm's length from the material (beware of any show in which one character calls another "Flyboy"). The ersatz-'30s numbers are pleasant but forgettable, although Debra Monk...
...Lorenz, the longtime cartoon editor of the New Yorker, has confirmed my suspicions: the magazine is running fewer and fewer cartoons featuring bearded men in white robes holding placards emblazoned with some variation on the end is near. This strikes me as odd since, at least from a strictly millennial point of view, the end is near. Shouldn't we be seeing more of these guys, both in real life and breaking up the gray columns of Joe Klein articles? "It's just one of those cartoon cliches that are pretty well played out," Lorenz says. "It's like desert...
Pynchon, the one-time enfant terrible of American literature, turns 60 this May. He still refuses to give interviews or pose for photographers, but his whereabouts are now known. New York magazine reported last fall that Pynchon has been living quietly in Manhattan--an odd choice for a presumptive recluse--with his wife and young son for the past six or so years. In 1996 he attracted gossipy notice by writing the liner notes for an album by the alternative-rock band Lotion and appearing as an enthusiastic booster at some of the group's concerts. If this behavior suggests...
...droll facial expressions. In this respect, she edges Catherine M. Ingman '98, who plays sharp-tongued, slightly scornful Claire Ganz. Both, however, are upstaged by Jordanna M. Brodsky '99 as a hilariously dippy, brocade-clad Julia Child-like chef--aptly named Cookie--married to Ernie. Indeed, the odd-couple of Hawkes and Brodsky wins hands-down as the best pairing in the show, and it's a tribute to their skill that the somewhat corny physical humor delineated to them (especially Cookie) becomes irresistibly funny in their hands. They make the fourth couple, Glenn and Cassie Cooper (Seth H. Goldbarg...
...always time to run to the bank for money, Store 24 to buy a small purchase, race to a library with a Crimson Cash machine, add money and still have time to battle the copy machine that insists on cutting off the top of each page of odd-sized books...