Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Somehow, with all the electronic attention, the presidential race has been odd, difficult to grasp, even obscurely depressing. Bush and Rather last week enacted a dispiriting shadow play that made one nostalgic for some other time when, one imagines, presidential candidates had more size, and the waters of intelligence ran clearer, and words had meaning...
Wright disdains the idea of leaving determinations critical to American foreign policy to "someone in the State Department" -- say, the Secretary of State. The Speaker, who has of late been playing the plenipotentiary, perhaps fancies himself better suited to the role. But it is truly odd to prefer leaving such determinations to foreigners. Most countries devote enormous resources to maintaining independence of judgment in foreign policy. Only in America does the majority leader offer a foreign policy for export...
...scene of one of the nation's bitterest newspaper wars. All-out efforts by the afternoon News and the morning Free Press to beat each other into submission cost millions and kept newsstand prices and advertising rates at rock bottom. Then two years ago both papers agreed to an odd sort of truce. Gannett Co., owner of the News, and Knight-Ridder Inc., owner of the Free Press, decided to take advantage of a federal law designed to preserve the editorial voice of a dying newspaper by allowing it to combine its business operations with a healthy competitor. They thus...
...also won Gephardt the enmity of editorial writers, including those at the Des Moines Register. In response, Gephardt lashed out at the "opinion centers, Wall Street and editorial boards" and exhorted Democrats not to "play the Establishment game on foreign trade." Campaigning as an "anti-Establishment" candidate is an odd turnabout for the Missouri Congressman, who built his reputation as a Washington insider. But in a flaccid field, it seems to be working...
...mystery rekindled by the limited edition Ta Chien print on the wall. It is a landscape, viewed through a peculiar window a foot high and perhaps ten feet long. There are sea, land and river mouths, but the whole is rendered abstract and emotionally disturbed by the odd shape and the subtle colors. It is a plain and impenetrable as Dylan's "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands," despite helpful paper signs by the staff labeling various blotches as particular rivers...