Word: odder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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JIMMY BUFFETT'S memoir, A Pirate Looks at 50, hit the No. 1 spot on the New York Times best-seller list. He's one of only six authors to have had books at the top of both the fiction and nonfiction lists. Even odder, one of each of the other authors' books seems to have an odd resonance with a Buffett album...
Couture season in Paris: that bizarre time of year when the world's most beautiful women parade around in the world's most impeccably tailored, insanely expensive and unusual clothes. Certainly it doesn't get much odder than at the house of 28-year-old Alexander McQueen, Givenchy. His show, held at a Parisian medical school festooned with swaths of red velvet and caged ravens, had been plagued by rumors that it would feature real human bones and teeth. Not so. The handlike skeletons under the lace mantilla were made of resin. The swan around SHALOM HARLOW'S neck, right...
Other acquaintances were aware of some of the group's odder beliefs. A man who worked with Higher Source for more than six years on several computer projects discussed the imminent coming of the Hale-Bopp comet with them. "They didn't know, but they felt it could be something other than a comet--that maybe it was a spaceship coming to collect them," the acquaintance says. He says he even joked with them about Jonestown once, but got little reaction. This man last heard from the group just a few weeks ago; they wanted help setting up some...
Much of the sculpture from the '70s sounds better--or, at any rate, odder--as a conceit than it looks on the floor or the wall. It may be that the impulse to multiply the height of the letters of his written name 14 times their normal size and then trace the result in neon tubing satisfies some inner necessity for Nauman, but for anyone who isn't Nauman, it's meaningless. And you soon lose interest in the "animated" neon pieces, with their spasmodic one-two, on-off movements of violence or puppet sex. They are one-liner...
...Sean Leonard, playing Valentine Coverly, a modern-day biologist and computer scientist. As Claudio in Kenneth Branagh's film Much Ado About Nothing, Leonard looked thoroughly out of his element while trying to do what stage actors traditionally do--proclaim words of love in ornamental verse. Here, in an odder role that requires him to speak of mathematics in hard-edged, gemlike prose, he is gratifyingly convincing...