Word: oddly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Among his 40-odd compositions are three symphonies, two string quartets, a mass, a requiem, two operas and a St. Lukers Passion...
...kept trying: "I am a guinea pig with a hell of a palate." He was finally satisfied in 1980. Mintz keeps his formula a secret but admits to contemplating odd flavors like mango and even pineapple-yam. Says he: "My wife Rachel and I live and breathe Tofutti...
What Jackson most clearly says he wants he cannot have. If the Democratic Party gave him the additional 400-odd delegates he demands to match his share of the popular vote in the primaries, it would eliminate Mondale's narrow majority and throw the convention into chaos. An ad hoc congressional committee set up by House Speaker Tip O'Neill toyed briefly with ideas such as adding nonvoting Jackson delegates to the convention and changing the rules so that Mondale could win with a simple plurality. Both proposals were rejected, and the committee instead promised to press...
...odd chance, the family in the house across the street was that of a young radio broadcaster, Phil Donahue, with five growing children. Donahue, an old friend now, whose morning TV appearances bring housework to a halt across the country, confirms that Bombeck was by no means the neighborhood clown. She and Bill, he says, were among the most hardworking of the development's house-proud do-it-yourselfers. All the houses had Early American furniture, including the inevitable rocker with a cushion tied to the back. The idea of Bombeck as a hopelessly disorganized housewife...
...mind. But brilliant as they frequently are, they are more Mnouchkine than Shakespeare, and in their excessive length-Henry IV is more than five hours-seem to be testing the audience's endurance as much as its intelligence. Nevertheless, what Mnouchkine and her company have conceived is odd, provoking, and just what Festival Director Robert Fitzpatrick hoped for when he chose the festival's dramatic presentations. "Usually people come out of the theater in Los Angeles, get in their cars and go home," Fitzpatrick says. "Last night they came out and talked about what they had seen. That...