Word: oddest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...criticize a movie for not being faithful to a perverse and distasteful novel. But it is equally ridiculous to spend time at a movie that insists-as its source really did not-that torture can be a lovely, romantic experience akin to a walk in the spring rain. Oddest of all is the success with which the film is luring viewers of both sexes. Women's lib, where are you when we need...
...work and at home, they bring their neuroses and loneliness to Xaviera. She and her girls minister to their needs while passing knowing smiles to each other behind the men's backs. Secure in their aloofness and a sense of superiority, the women dispense maternal care in its oddest forms, and the men go home happy. One client makes elaborate banana splits on a naked woman's stomach while munching on a banana. A man from Georgia comes to watch a white woman do erotic dances with a black woman. A finance mogul pays Xaviera to huskily recite...
...call attention to myself. The other day I was in the library with my back turned to the main hall, and a friend of mine recognized me just by my socks." Adds Terry Giesen, 27, an employment manager at Manhattan's Lord & Taylor: "I pick out the oddest, ugliest pair I can find, then worry about something to wear with them. It's great to wear them under pants. Just enough shows so that people will say, 'Let me see those socks...
...seemed a marriage of sandals and Gucci loafers, of body odors and Bal àVersailles, of radical cheek and radical chic. The corporate merger announced last week between the Village Voice and New York magazine struck many observers as the oddest of couplings...
...oddest marker of all can be found near the City Hospital on Mt. Auburn St., an inconspicuous tablet that reads: "ON THIS SPOT IN THE YEAR 1000 LEIF ERICKSON BUILT HIS HOUSE IN VINELAND." The stone was placed on the left bank of the Charles in the 1880s by Eben Norton Horsford, then Rumford Professor of History Emeritus. His painstaking research led him to believe that the Northmen were familiar with Boston Harbor and the Charles, and that Cambridge was Vineland itself...