Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Huks had an estimated 20,000 well-organized men under arms. A concerted government drive led by the late Ramon Magsaysay, then Defense Secretary, whittled that number down drastically, but did not succeed in stamping out the insurgents. To thousands of peasants, the Huks, an odd farrago of idealistic reformers, nationalists, Communists and mere bandits, are still Robin Hoods who mete out swift and bloody justice to cattle thieves and heavy-handed officials. To the government, they are dangerously politicized criminals who must be eradicated...
Spitting the Pits. Pushkin's life was no less odd and puzzling than his works, as this solid, sometimes pedestrian biography by Russian-born David Magarshack makes clear. As a founding father of Russian literature, Pushkin behaved more like a rakehell uncle. A tiny (5 ft. 3 in.), edgy man with fingernails as long as claws and half-simian features, Pushkin pursued all the known excesses with prodigious energy. Though he was ugly, he exerted a vast sexual attraction through his sheer intensity. A fellow student recalled that at the touch of a dancing partner's hand...
...last longer than the Battle of Guadalcanal. Bereft of conventional weapons, the pair have at each other with sticks, fire, traps and maledictions. To no avail. Predictably, the hunters learn that they cannot survive without their quarries. Without speaking a word of each other's language, the odd couple eventually construct a raft and go off in search of rescuers. Stranded again on a different island, they find no one, and wander offscreen...
...vintage Mumm's champagne before the bubbly pairs of part-time actors began playing the part of traveling companions in the filming of a series of Braniff Airways commercials. First off, there was baseball's Whitey Ford tweaking the twitching mustache of Salvador Dali. Then came another Odd Couple, Mickey Rooney and Rex Reed. "Let's hurry this show up," cracked the much-married Rooney. "I gotta be in court. I'm gettin' another divorce, ya know." The most memorable set of seatmates, though, was Novelist Mickey Spillane ("I only write for money") and venerable...
...rebellion of the middle-aged man is an American legend. He wakes up one morning and looks in the mirror -and there is a creased, faded, fuzzy carbon copy of the youth he once was. He is 40-odd, going to fat, bored with his job and his marriage. So-in the legend-he shaves, puts on his gaudiest tie, phones the boss to say he's not coming in, says so long to his wife, and walks off arm in arm with his mistress to find his soul...