Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Duluth and my escapades there catapulted me into a brief moment of celebrity. The odd thing about it is, if you had asked me, I never would have thought I would become famous for calling people names, much less for calling an entire city names...
WHAT WAS SO ODD--so disturbing--about the whole thing was that both sides got what they wanted. Protesters of Harvard's investment policy put themselves, if not their cause, in the headlines. On that freezing night in late November, police cleared the protesters--not violently, but calmly--from the steps of the Fogg Art Museum like so much snow blocking guests from the entryway. The University held its dinner...
...last week. Only eight weeks after the premiere of his critically acclaimed late-night talk show, Jimmy Breslin's People, the feisty Pulitzer-prizewinning columnist became, as he put it, "the first person in America to fire a network." Breslin had been miffed that abc aired his show at odd hours, as late as 2 a.m. in some markets, including his hometown of New York City. abc responded to Breslin's snub by declaring it had already announced its intention the preceding Friday to pull out of late nightchatter competition by canceling both the columnist's show and one featuring...
...woodcock, that plucky, reclusive little game bird of the uplands. Preparatory to a hunt in upstate New York, Humphrey reads up on the bird. "He gets curiouser and curiouser. His brain is upside down. His ears are in front of his nose . . . Like the woodcock, I too am an odd bird; I know I am, and I would change if I could, because being odd is uncomfortable, but, no more than the woodcock can, I can't, not anymore -- it's too late even to try. My brain, I often think, must surely be upside down, so out of step...
...film is at its best in the first hour, when it explores the ways Charles and Audrey fulfill each other's fantasies. She is his risk-taking, defiant lover. He is her loving, stable husband. The relationship is odd but sweet and interesting. Whether or not it will last is the next logical question, and one that interests the audience...