Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Coal Dock in Rockport, Ind., which buys coal from 60-odd nonunion mines and sells it to power stations, was attacked in January, and twelve $50,000 coal trucks were destroyed. State police arrested 194 men, mostly miners from Indiana's U.M.W. District 11. Last week any visitor was met by at least three AR-15-armed guards. In his office, which still has holes in the wall from the ax attack of the U.M.W. toughs, B&M Owner Paul Teegarden kept a 9-mm Smith & Wesson automatic pistol on his desk and a 12-gauge shotgun...
...Haldeman's book is full of odd little passages like that; dramatic hyperbole, overstatement and stereotype in place of thoughtful description. Some of these excesses are funny. Others are full of poison, and they cause me to wonder about the relationship between Bob Haldeman and the writer, Joseph DiMona. Haldeman has seen my tennis serve, and he knows my character and personality; DiMona does not. Perhaps the wrong fellow picked the verbs...
...prank we played on Henry Kissinger is given an odd and nasty twist for no apparent reason. Ordinary, glossy movie promotion pictures of Jill St. John, one of Henry's beautiful dates, were put into file folders, then given captions by several of the staff as we rode together on Air Force One. and periodically sent to Henry by messenger. Miss St. John was, in fact, fully clothed in all the photos. Haldeman has written that the pictures were nudes and that I forged "presidential memos to Henry complete with Nixon's 'bizarre demands' for certain types of action." That...
...Suga, the tiny Japanese master hairdresser, approaches, and Tiegs bends her knees, lowering her head so that he can give it a last swipe with his brush. A small, wren-colored woman, a stylist, darts up, makes an odd little ducking gesture that may be obeisance, and slips a bracelet on the racing sloop's left arm. Photographer Seltzer, a big, bald, hard-looking man, lies on his belly, chest soothed by a pillow, and begins to talk in the style parodied in Blow-Up: "Good, good, wonderful, great...
...with Tennis Player Vitas Gerulaitis. The two barely know each other. As Tiegs explains, "It was publicity." If Cheryl is straining at the mooring ropes, part of the reason is that she and her husband have been working hard to produce the necessary volume of superheated publicity. An odd result is that the makers of Virginia Slims and other products that Tiegs sells, like Black Velvet Canadian whisky and Cover Girl Cosmetics, are now selling Cheryl Tiegs...