Word: odder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...odder than a gathering of stamp collectors...
...game had sold out months ago in just a few days, and not even a cold, driving rain could deter the lucky 82,699 ticket holders. They filed into Wembley past souvenir hawkers peddling T shirts, caps and, of all things, Confederate flags, one of the odder English associations with American football. A comfortingly familiar concert by the Band of the Grenadier Guards filled some of the pregame wait. Culture shock began in earnest with the arrival of the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders, who romped onto the field and high-kicked for the astonished audience. "What is this?" a Brit demanded...
...Sioux certainly deserves that, if only as a tribute to reckless originality. A stranger tale and an odder telling would be hard to confect. Vincent Castleton, 43, an English banker in New Orleans, has married Marguerite Benoir, also known as Mim or Mimi to the handful of people on earth she regards as equals. These include most of the Benoirs, an impossibly rich and haughty French clan whose members call themselves the Sioux, perhaps as a tribute to their own ferocity. Mim, in her mid-20s, has led a luxurious but troubled life. Her first marriage, to Cousin Georges Benoir...
...natured romance offered two teen fantasies for the price of one: a nice girl connects with her prince charming, and a horny dork gets to drive the prom queen to distraction. The Breakfast Club, the new film from the writer-director of Sixteen Candles, John Hughes, is an even odder beguilement. A nine-hour Saturday detention class is called for five balky students: a jock (Emilio Estevez), a grind (Anthony Michael Hall), a punk (Judd Nelson), a deb (Molly Ringwald) and a feral cutie (Ally Sheedy) who eats Cap'n Crunch sandwiches and comports herself like a baby Maoist from...
Three of these stories first appeared in Playboy and two others ran in Esquire; the remainder made their debuts in quarterlies or little magazines. That parlay of the slick and scholarly is unusual, particularly for a beginning writer. Odder still, only a peek at the copyright page can confirm just which stories reached the mass or middling audiences; Easy in the Islands is a whole unified by consistent parts. Shacochis, 33, grew up in Virginia and earned a B.A. in journalism and an M.A. in English at the University of Missouri, where he now serves as a visiting writer...