Word: oddly
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...sometimes Neil Young. And while listeners may whistle the tune from “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes,” the smash single Stills penned, they don’t realize that they’re singing the catch phrases of radical politics. Take another listen: after seven-odd minutes of folky guitar licks, pitch-perfect harmonies and snatches of soul-baring poetry, Stills starts crooning something in Spanish about Cuba...
...This is odd in the extreme. There are a dozen other measures of economic health. Democrats understandably do not want to talk about them because they happen to be positive: the fastest growth rate in the West (now settling in at a healthy 4.2%), historically low interest rates and mortgage rates, record high productivity, record high homeownership, booming home values and low inflation. Why, even the unemployment rate, the traditional measure of the job market, is significantly below the average for the past three decades. Nonetheless, the burning political issue is job creation, a thin slice of the economic picture...
...dress in Lilly’s 2004 collection is described as: “Nassau Blue Macadamia Nut House.” This seemingly odd concoction of descriptors is strangely appropriate for the Lilly look, for the “nut house” is essentially where Lilly Pulitzer as a brand all started. Born into New York society, marrying money and lacking a livelihood, Lilly, then wife of Peter Pulitzer who was grandson of the Pulitzer-Prize-Pulitzer, had a breakdown, spent the requisite New York woman’s time in a mental institution (her friends called...
...odd year. Polls say the public is very much engaged, but the combatants seem disengaged. Bush is Bush. Neither he nor his campaign will change much between now and November. His future is at the mercy of events in the world, particularly in Iraq. Kerry has a slightly more enviable position. The President's attempt to define him negatively has had only marginal success. My guess is that there are small but significant numbers of Bush supporters who are ready to jump ship--fiscal conservatives, military families, diplomatic traditionalists angry about the war. A vote for Kerry will...
...First, because of the military juntas who came to power in a bloody coup in 1962, and have been running the country with a truncheon ever since. Second, because of us. There has been no real roar against these human rights abusers, just the odd bark. Yet even single-party democracies check their mail. They're not just muscle; they're vain. Even juntas measure just how many boos and hisses they can get away with. Suu Kyi's peaceful bloody-mindedness is driven by courage, but her captors' bloody bloody-mindedness is driven by fear--fear of losing...