Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...harmonic linkups attracted TV crews, the vaguely curious, hi-tech yuppies, shaggy hipsters and even the odd businessman. Said one Wall Street investment banker who went to Sagaponack: "I never thought I'd get involved in this sort of thing. It's easy to pass off the group as certifiable, but the more people who are continuously working on overcoming conflict, the happier...
Unfortunately, this tourist-brochure fantasy is only the beginning of Patriot Games, a novel that performs the odd trick of growing exponentially less interesting with the turning of each page. Ryan returns to the U.S. and resumes his old humdrum life, teaching history at the Naval Academy, with the added burden of playing a sitting duck. For it is only a matter of time -- oodles of time -- until the U.L.A. "bad guys" attempt to punish Ryan for thwarting their plans in London...
...over the Supreme Court nomination of Appeals Court Judge Robert Bork. Anticipating this fall's Senate confirmation vote, hundreds of liberal and conservative interest groups are expected to spend more than $20 million in multimedia ad campaigns and direct contact by mail and phone. Their main target: the 20-odd Senators who have yet to make up their minds...
...screenwriter and director, Robert Benton loves odd couples, whether outlaws * (Bonnie and Clyde, Bad Company) or in-laws (Kramer vs. Kramer, Places in the Heart). With Nadine, he blends the two. Vernon Hightower, who owns a bar teetering toward bankruptcy, is a congenital optimist. Nadine, his estranged wife, sees life too clearly to find much hope in it. Cute couple for a caper film -- maybe even a fun couple, game to turn love-hate into love-great and to con the local crooks. Well, no. As played by Jeff Bridges and Kim Basinger, they are an "un" couple: unsuitable emotionally...
...laden carts at a battery of check-out counters. A supermarket perhaps? Or a Toys "R" Us store? No, these bargain hunters were buying furniture. The boxes of all shapes and sizes contained build-it-yourself kits for assembling everything from chairs to cabinets. It may seem an odd way to furnish a house, but not to the throngs of customers who were grabbing, hauling and finally staggering out of the store...