Word: oddest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...oddest pets in pet-loving Britain are two electric turtles named Elmer and Elsie. They play around the home of Dr. W. Grey Walter, head of the physiological department of the Burden Neurological Institute at Bristol. Elmer and Elsie are not exactly alive. Under their shiny steel shells are no flesh & blood, but only mechanical organs. They take no interest in each other, and could not, in any case, reproduce. But wandering around Dr. Walter's house, they act much like real live animals...
Artist Salvador Dali, 45, showed up in Manhattan with one of bis newest and oddest creations: a larger-than-life-sized, jewel-studded eye, with one ruby teardrop forming in the corner. The proper place for a lady to wear this surrealist bauble, he explained, was smack on her forehead, just above and between her real eyes...
...oddest, features of the play is the part of Thersites, who, largely detached from the action, observes and comments on the events about him. He combines the functions of the Shakespearian "fool" with the chorus of a Greek drama, and his bitter words seem to be the theme of the play "still wars and lechery--nothing else holds fashion." Albert Marre has avoided the ranting style he used in the previous performance, and speaks with just about the proper degree of bitter cynicism...
...oddest devotions to the good time occurred during one of Freddie's lavish Prohibition-era parties. It was a Christmas dinner at Boston's staid Locke-Ober's. The company was high, the food and wines were perfect. Outside the snow fell. But there was one feature missing. Freddie hired a shivering newsboy to press his nose against the window and watch "as we attacked the groaning board...