Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then came the first odd incident of the day. A 30-yd. Bosnic field goal attempt with 2:57 to go in the half sailed into the arm of Penn's Kevin Weir instead of through the goalpost. Two-and-a-half minutes later. Quaker Dan Huber killed a desperation Harvard rally by picking off a Brown aerial at the Penn 14-yd. line...
Here comes odd incident number two. Instead of running the clock out. Roland pitched the ball wildly, and Terry Trusty gladly pounced on it at the Penn 10. Bosnic failed to fluff it this time, skying the ball through the uprights with 0:04 left...
Hermann has other problems, as he explains to a weighty fellow whom he takes to be a psychiatrist but who is in fact an insurance agent. He is troubled by an odd sort of sexual dislocation: when he is making love to his wife (a porky and bubbleheaded blonde played delightfully by Andréa Ferréol), he also seems to be sitting in a chair and watching the heavings. Worse, as the illness progresses, the chair he watches, from recedes farther and farther from the action...
...movie. There is a lot of blubbery smooching between Hermann's wife and her lascivious cousin, a bulky red-bearded artist (Volker Spengler). Hermann ignores this, but giggles apprehensively about the infant Nazi Party: "The National Socialists are against the Socialists and also against the Nationalists." In an odd scene witnessed by the distracted chocolate manufacturer, Brownshirts throw bricks at the shopwindow of a Jewish butcher, but the bricks do not seem to shatter the glass...
...foot two and ruggedly handsome, Benedict is an odd mixture of shyness and aggressiveness. He speaks slowly and softly, choosing each word with care, and has to' be coaxed into talking about himself. But in discussing his business, he displays the combative urge that made him a championship wrestler in high school and during his two-year Navy hitch. Says Pat: "It's a sport I identify with. You're out there on your own, and if you can't cut it, it's pretty obvious." He feels much the same about farming, castigating many of his fellows for being...