Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hits limited to a third of the playing field as is the case with most pulling power hitters. A lefthanded hitter (who throws rightie), he sprays the field like a grounds keeper's sprinkler; inside pitches are pulled, outside pitches go rocketing into left field, and, on the odd occasion when a careless hurler puts one down the pipe, the ball goes up the middle. Opponents cannot concoct a latter-day version of the Williams Shift-loading the defense to blanket a portion of the park-in hopes of stopping Carew. He thus has a lot of territory where...
...Georges Clouzot based his well-regarded 1953 film, The Wages of Fear (that's the one about trucking nitroglycerin over the mountains). The new movie is handsomely shot and crisply edited. Why, then, does one rather distantly respect it instead of just plain liking it? It is an odd, disappointing feeling to take away from a summertime movie...
...Odd Negligence. That worthy sentiment seems to turn Davidson's prose to pulp. When her irony departs, she sounds as preposterous as Cosmo fantasy: "He was a full professor, and yet there was about him a spirit of hijinks." The women's sex lives - their entire lives, in fact - seem like nothing so much as an interminable game of pinball- careening from one man to another with an awful earnestness, a flashing of lights and banging of flippers. Susie, who solves her frigidity with a vibrator, decides eventually that having slept with more than...
Though sometimes moving, the women's lives as told by Davidson have an odd negligence about them and the unique stupidity that comes with a certain kind of self-absorption. At the end, with a cross-eyed earnestness, Susie proclaims: "I don't want any more trips. I want substance and depth." Davidson's book hasn't very much of either - only the shallows of countercultural soap opera...
...hand-wringing of nutritionists, the sneers of gourmets and the prickings of their own consciences. For them, fast food takes the worry out of being hungry. A first visit to an outlet of an unfamiliar chain may cause some anxiety and confusion; dazzling permutations on the basic hamburger, bearing odd, hyped-up names, take some time to master, much less understand. But a snack that hits the spot on one day is likely to do so every day, thanks to tight control of quality and portion size by the large chains. Familiarity with fast food does not, apparently, breed contempt...