Word: odd
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...When it comes time for him to address the comments, he does so by citing each speaker by name - 23 in all, he notes. In contrast with what he calls the lack of respect and dignity accorded to him at Columbia - where, he says, he found it odd that an academic institution which prizes tolerance would treat him without any - he addresses each person carefully and patiently. Some highlights...
That focus landed Hermann at the house of eccentric wunderkind Galliano in 1996 and eventually at Dior. "We were le carpe and le lapin," she says, laughing at the French image of the classic odd couple, the fish and the rabbit. "He was the British boy, and I was the French bourgeois girl. But we respected the same values...
...1970S, WHEN GAME shows "starred" guest panelists who appeared for years, smoky-voiced character actress Brett Somers--familiar from spots on such TV sitcoms as The Odd Couple and Love, American Style--became a household name when her then husband Jack Klugman insisted she deserved a spot on Match Game. A smart, bitingly witty performer, she became a favorite on the hit show, bantering bawdily with fellow panelist Charles Nelson Reilly and delivering a mean impression of Ethel Merman. "It was the best job I ever had," said Somers...
...critics - a group which includes Graham himself. In our hours of interviews with him - while researching our own book, The Preacher and the Presidents - he was quick to find fault with his own conduct and quite willing to explore the reasons behind the mistakes he admitted making. The odd thing about Hitchens' attack is not that he assaults an ailing icon - that's both his specialty and his right - but that the evidence he cites actually proves him wrong...
Featured prominently on the council’s summer agenda were student group issues, which Sundquist hopes to address with the impending release of a 70-odd page student group guide...