Word: odd
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...that thought doesn't come until the end of this odd page-turner, when Noriko has been effectively brainwashed. In the meantime there are plenty of exquisitely perverse intimations and hard evidences rolled out to rebut it. The flawless family portrait starts to crack after Noriko, while on a brief visit back home to visit her parents, sees a TV news report about the death by home gas explosion of a raspy old ice vendor and his family - tenants of the Shitos, who happen to own and lease several residential properties. Murder-suicide, the police conclude. But an overheard midnight...
Caught Between Color Lines I agreed in general with what randall Kennedy had to say in "The Right Shade of Black," but I thought it odd that he referred to Senator Barack Obama's "adopted racial roots" [Jan. 28]. According to his skin color, Obama is black, but his mixed parentage dictates that, strictly speaking, he is neither black nor white. Nothing about his race has been adopted. In any case, why should we care about Obama's race? We should support candidates who approach problems intelligently, without adhering to racial - or any other - biases. Arthur C. Echtemacht, Knoxville, Tenn...
...other hand, the idea of 8-year-olds' celebrating a holiday that shimmies into view wearing a negligee does seem odd. But consider the huge commercial stakes: "The tradition of sending and receiving classroom valentines," observes American Greetings, which owns a $1.8 billion piece of the "social expression" industry, "is often a child's first experience with greeting cards." A billion cards are sent every year, second only to Christmastime, and 85% of them by women. For this we can thank Esther Howland, an entrepreneurial 1847 Mount Holyoke grad, whose father owned a stationery store and who came up with...
...slapdash execution. "In and of itself, Super Tuesday is fine," said former Senator John Danforth of Missouri, a voice of logic, as the cacophony crescendoed. "But if you're going to have something like this, then candidates should have more than a week to campaign in 20-odd states...
...This has become an odd campaign for Democrats. There is good news ... and fear. The good news is that this time the people seem far more interested in their party than in the Republicans. On Super Tuesday, at least 15,417,521 voted Democratic, and 9,181,297 voted Republican. And more good news: both Obama and Clinton are very good candidates who hold similar positions on most issues, moderates who intend to reach out to Republicans after they are elected - although, given Clinton's undeserved reputation as a partisan operative, that may be a tougher sell for her than...