Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...answers from a windy five minutes to a streamlined minute and a half. In his first public appearance since nomination, he was a big hit, wowing a Portuguese-American association in San Francisco with language that will likely be repeated across the nation. It was an odd mixture of sensible patriotism and a smug defense of the status...
...Enemy. If the South's influence this year has been strong, it has also been negative and retrogressive. The Wallace candidacy is a magnet for the disgruntled, and while the Alabamian poses serious problems for the major parties, his odd allure is a force to be circumvented rather than absorbed into the mainstream...
WESTON, VT., Playhouse. Two men suffering hangovers from marriages on the rocks try setting up an all-male household in Neil Simon's The Odd Couple...
...less effective than in print. In one sketch, though, while playing an uncommitted delegate wooed by party girls at a hotel pool, Art got off his best line: "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the cabana." ABC scheduled nightly debates between the self-styled "Odd Couple," Conservative Editor William Buckley Jr. and Novelist Gore Vidal, whose latest book is the sex farce, Myra Breckinridge. The confrontation was diverting as an exhibition of personal antagonism, but the political issues were almost entirely lost in the scuffle. A sample exchange...
...comment about the Who's music is that it is unclassifiable; attempting to do so does pose special problems because the group's members seem to have dredged up out of themselves a new vein in rock music--one that sounds like no other group for more than the odd fleeting moment. If you can imagine a music that sounds a little like the Beach Boys in their early 'I Get Around' stage but harder, or like The Stones' 'Jumping Jack Flash' but harder, you have the Who at their medium mellowest, i.e. doing 'Out in the Street...