Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this week, but anyone with a radio has already heard Bruce Springsteen telling what it is about. The first single from the album, Brilliant Disguise, floats easily in the air to a snapback, mid-tempo rhythm. It is like a silk scarf shading a lamp: the song throws off odd refractions of color and veils a 100-watt glow. The melody is sinuous, but the lyrics say something scary just at the end: "God have mercy on the man/ Who doubts what he's sure of." That is Tunnel of Love in two deft lines, an album about love that...
...unsuspecting guest this appears odd. Surely a country that has with such high success and low cunning preserved every quaint and tourist-attracting feature it posesses--regardless of intrinsic worth--would take especial care to do so in the case of its government. After all, is not "Inertia" the great rallying call of the British? What possibly could have induced Parliament to introduce such vast numbers of Americans into its musty domain...
This tends to take bystanders by surprise, prompting comments such as, "Oh, how odd!" To this I quickly kiss them full on the lips like Bugs Bunny would (so our joined mouths stretch a full two feet between us), and I dart happily from the dorm in a hurried search for catharsis before I explode with joy. My studies have ended for the evening...
MOST fireworks I bought were named for odd sayings translated from Chinese, like "Screeming Meemies", or for the Civil War fantasies of their buyers, like the "General Lee Assortment Pack" and "Screaming Rebel...
...teen who twice eloped with older women and became a media sensation. Patrick Dempsey, Talia Balsam and Beverly D'Angelo agreeably impart the message that adolescent sexual energy can cheerily compensate for lack of sexual sophistication. But one cannot help feeling that there is a wicked craziness in their odd couplings that escaped a directorial eye looking merely for goofiness...