Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thus West German leaders' advice to their compatriots from the East was an odd amalgam: We love you, and if you come, we will welcome you with open arms -- but really, we wish you would stay home. "Anyone who wants can come," said Mayor Momper, but added, "Please, even with all the understandable joy you must feel being able to come to the West, please do it tomorrow, do it the day after tomorrow. We are having trouble dealing with this." In Bonn, Interior Minister Wolfgang Schauble warned would-be refugees that with a cold winter coming on, the country...
...dairy owner, set out to be a sculptor after studying at the University of Michigan and the Rhode Island School of Design. But he also sketched continually, and his wife Lisa, then an art teacher, showed some of his drawings to children's book editors. "Everybody else called them odd," he recalls. "I didn't." The editors liked the oddness. In 1979 Van Allsburg made his debut with The Garden of Abdul Gasazi, in which a boy and a dog stumble onto the house of a magician who wears a fez and blows perfect smoke rings. Typically, the story ends...
...comandante in his peripheral vision. He was poised for this power game that is played with body language and photo opportunities. Adversarial heads of state strive to gain a psychological edge over one another and to make points with the vast electronic audiences that watch these dramas. In this odd world where image is the message and sometimes the meaning, the outcome can be critical. Bush vs. Ortega is not a World Series, but it is a ( measure of Bush's response to a defiant bush leaguer. "Not a relaxed setting," Bush told TIME last week, recalling the encounter...
...added, "It was odd--the huge preparations and expense to the school that it took for him to speak for an hour...
...handed out copies of "Up Where We Belong" at a screening of An Officer and A Gentleman. Of Course, these were all soft and fragile pieces of vinyl not meant to last a lifetime, maybe only worthy of one smudgy play, but they were still nice surprise samplers in odd corners of culture. The soul--or the lack thereof--of the compact disc is such a technological boy wonder that it will never be simplified into fun forms that you find near those ever-annoying subscription cards in magazine centerfolds...