Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pleasant surprise?" he says, laughing incredulously. "I said, 'Didn't you know I ran the 100 in 9.6, didn't you know I weigh 190 pounds? That's odd, a pleasant surprise...
...Nile cruise for her honeymoon. As it develops, just about everyone in first class has both motive and opportunity to do her in. Naturally, one does not imagine that Dame Agatha's immortal detective, Hercule Poirot (Peter Ustinov), pulled any triggers, and one can only spare the odd suspicious thought for Colonel Rice (David Niven), who assists him in his investigation. But that leaves plenty of others: Bette Davis as a dowager with a taste for pearls of the sort the late-lamented sported; Maggie Smith as her nurse-companion...
...more original--and expensive--rooms on campus. Kasper and his seven roommates have spent some $300 on materials such as wood, nails and plexiglas. This does not include the $2000 stereo with four large speakers that regularly blasts such tunes as "Space Cowboy" at odd hours of the day and night...
...film to the becalmed chill of that other recent assault on the sterility of bourgeois life, Woody Allen's Interiors. The contrast is all in favor of Altman. The people in A Wedding are capable of bursting their schematic bounds, of bouncing into wayward life and, in an odd way, undercutting the director's underlying message of disapproval. In the end, Altman the observant artist manages to subvert Altman the highly conventional social critic. -Richard Schickel
Nevertheless, this Windy City bard founded Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. Within three years she printed an odd-looking work that opened with six lines of Italian and then proceeded: "Let us go then, you and I/ When the evening is spread out against the sky/ Like a patient etherized upon a table ..." Nothing quite like T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" had ever appeared before. The expatriate gentleman from St. Louis and the lady from Chicago put each other...