Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...king of the mountain. And I'm not sure we were ever avant-garde. I think it's true that in the early days we felt like we had to establish ourselves as being different, so maybe it was easier for us to do odd things and take more chances. I think the grind of doing a show every night makes you more inclined to say "Well, we did that once before, we can do it again." A certain kind of inertia takes over. But I think what has come over the years is a more consistent spirit. We have...
...before the show and after the show. We've been to dinner many times, and he's been to my house many times. I like him, and I think he's the best at what he does. But we're not best friends. I think it would be odd for me and Paul to be best friends away from the show and then have any kind of acceptable relationship on the show...
...Viet Nam were connected to death, the heroes to their own cessations, cut down in the prime of their youth and work. Part of the mythic power of the year derives from the mystery of all the possibilities that vanished into death and nothingness. (In October there came an odd, minor coda to the sex and death and disillusion of the '60s, when Jacqueline Kennedy married Aristotle Onassis. Illusion -- Camelot and the rest -- came to disillusion, a passage that was a major theme...
...think that we're just lucky that both odd couples came along when they did and both odd couples had very odd coupled wives, who may not have gotten along, but who both had their eye on this ultimate accommodation," says Goldman...
...some advisers called his own Inaugural Address at the concluding gala Saturday night. Quayle said he had come to appreciate Winston Churchill's classic line that "nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result." He ridiculed the "self-importance" of the "Washington | Establishment" -- rather odd for the Vice President of an Administration dominated by such Establishment types as Bush and most members of the Cabinet...