Word: odd
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...odd thing. Back when men directed women's pictures, they throbbed with energy, perhaps because female behavior was such an enigma to them, perhaps because actresses like Bette Davis and Joan Crawford were so headlong, so committed to the emotional extremes. You might not, in the end, believe them, but boy they were gripping to watch. Directors like Grant or Nancy Meyers (of The Holiday among other titles) want to keep their leading ladies unhysteric, as if descents into the irrational were somehow fuel for sexism. But the politely furrowed brow is fundamentally anti-dramatic. You want people in films...
Henry, a onetime actor who performed in Simon's Odd Couple and Barefoot in the Park in small New Jersey productions in 1966 and 1967, recalls that the lines always drew laughs. Henry notes, however, that Simon, like many practitioners of comedy, is not an outgoing, knock-'em-dead kind of interview. "He is not a performer. He has more of the temperament of a professor or an accountant. In conversations, what you get is first-draft Neil Simon. The words are intelligent, authoritative and sometimes funny, but not burnished, not like his plays...
They were the odd couple atop the world's largest industrial corporation. One was a consummate organization man who had risen fast by mastering the bureaucracy of a giant company, the other a feisty free spirit who had built a billion-dollar firm from scratch. For two years everyone had wondered what would become of the uneasy chemistry between General Motors Chairman Roger Smith, 61, and H. Ross Perot, 56, the company's largest shareholder...
...years. It was the logical extension of his screen character as he had finally refined it, a healthy spirit who kept his troubles and even his memories to himself. Grant quit films in 1966 after Walk, Don 't Run, a relative failure. After that, the public saw only the odd, tastefully tantalizing glimpse of a man minding his own cheerful-seeming business, playing a graceful front man for Fabergé cosmetics, doting on his fifth wife, Barbara, and his daughter Jennifer, 20, by his marriage to Actress Dyan Cannon. It was more than usually shocking in his sudden death...
...Shelbyville was the recipient of an odd sort of national attention last spring as both TIME and the Oprah Winfrey Show used the town and its high dropout rate as a vehicle for discussing the larger national crisis - around 30% of all students around the country drop out. Shelbyville was picked not because it had higher rates than everywhere else, but because it was one of the few districts that was actually talking about the problem and trying to do something...