Word: oddest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dubbing himself "King Al No. -1," Allerd holds court over a set of fellow oddballs. The oddest: an Indian who believes his people can reconquer the U.S. by blowing up its sewage systems ("A devastating new weapon. Smell."), a Lesbian who drinks milk from a baby bottle, a homosexual, a Harvard graduate who scouts the society pages for the names of new brides and phones them from pay booths at 4 a.m., a seven-foot Santa Claus who tampers with little girls. Author Bourjaily (whose first novel, The End of My Life, was hailed by some critics for its "lyric...
Argentina's Strongman Juan PerÓn, already acclaimed at home as his nation's No. 1 worker, No. 1 engine-driver, No. 1 journalist and No. 1 sportsman, won his oddest title yet. The canary breeders of the city of Rosario (pop. 522,000) presented Aviculturist Peron with a pink warbler, a gold medal and bird-seeded him as the Argentine's No. 1 canary breeder...
...oddest factor in the Eisenstein technique is the feeling of motion that he maintains with essentially static grouping and poses. Telling a good part of his story by shifting the camera from group to group, Eisenstein at no time dwells long enough on any subject to create the boredom attending many of the silent films that, like Alexander Nevsky, give the main role to the director and his camera...
...White House with one of simulated clapboard. If the old motley red and orange roof was not especially beautiful, it did have character and an air of devil-may-care. But the new grey suggests only a drab conventionality which will mar the graceful, happy lines of Cambridge's oddest building. And it may also have the effect of reducing the high plane of Lampoon writing to a drab, humorless style. Witness the March issue...
London's Victoria & Albert Museum was staging one of the oddest special exhibitions in its history. Amidst the elaborate splendor of Indian carpets and inlaid furniture last week were close to 100 watercolors that had once sold for a penny and under. They dated from 1830 to 1930, and all came from the environs of a temple to Kali, wife of the Hindu god Shiva, in Calcutta...