Word: odder
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...have fueled the reverie and invention of innumerable artists. From De Chirico's piazzas to Steven Spielberg's suburbs, our culture is intermittently fascinated by the noonday goblin-the sense that something is askew within the well lit, the ordinary, and that the closer you peer the odder it gets. Jennifer Bartlett, whose recent paintings are currently on view at the Paula Cooper Gallery in Manhattan, is a connoisseur of this kind of unease. There are exhibitions that mark a full assumption of powers: the idiom is assembled, the grammar wrought, the experiences wholly understood...
...these and other objects on display represent only 3% of the Smithsonian's holdings. Out of sight, filling every nook and cranny of space, is a decidedly odder assortment of things-100,000 bats (including 6,629 vampires), 2,300 spark plugs, 24,797 woodpeckers, 718,605 pieces of pottery, 16,694 baskets, 82,615 fleas, 12,000 arctic fishing tools, 14,300 sea sponges, 6,012 animal pelts, 2,587 musical instruments, ten specimens of dinosaur excrement and a male gorilla preserved in formaldehyde...
...cocaine worth $5.8 billion, in and around South Florida. So much dope was seized that the police began trucking it to the Florida Power and Light Co. to burn in its generators (732 Ibs. of marijuana equal 1 bbl. of oil, one of the odder statistics to emerge from the region). Yet officials estimate that perhaps as much as ten times the amount seized was smuggled into the region. At the moment, Bade County police have a stash of 162,000 Ibs. of marijuana waiting to be entered as evidence in court cases. The Customs Service has 200 seized cigarette...
That scene last week illustrated one of the odder paradoxes of this strange political year. Heading into the April 22 Pennsylvania primary that he must win to retain even a long-shot chance for the presidency, Teddy Kennedy has reversed the usual candidate's emotional progress. At the start of the race last fall, when most other politicians would have been brimming with enthusiasm and energy, Kennedy went through the motions of campaigning so ineptly that many observers suspected that his heart was not really in the effort. Now, after a series of bruising defeats that might have broken...
That a poor and thinly populated state should suddenly seem a major battleground is one of the odder quirks of this year's political calendar. The number of votes at stake is insignificant: a mere 10,000 to 15,000 Democrats are expected to turn out for town caucuses next Sunday. They will choose delegates to a state convention in May that will determine how to apportion the 22 votes that Maine will eventually cast (out of a total of 3,331) at the Democratic nominating convention in New York in August...