Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moment acknowledges the New York Jets as the N.F.L.'s foremost team, has pledged Perry will carry the ball again "as soon as his weight gets a little nearer to a vicinity we'd like." Asked what vicinity it occupies now, Ditka replies, "Chicago." This season's odd shadow is being cast by Doug Flutie, the 5-ft. 9-in. quarterback from Boston College, whose Heisman Trophy two years ago appeared to have been sculpted to scale. After settling his seven-figure account with the dormant U.S. Football League, Flutie signed just a few weeks ago to back up Mike...
...that dream the Monell Center has filed applications for four pheromone patents. The Japanese have purchased rights for research and marketing of a pheromone-based product. U.S. rights are still available. Preti thinks some manufacturers may rush in right now with some sort of essence, even though the 200-odd chemical components of male and female odors have not been sorted out. An effective commercial scent, he believes, is unlikely for three to five years...
...particular social class or geographic area. His principal characters may be anything from janitors to college professors, and his settings range from Vienna to Brooklyn to Missouri to Northern California, with numerous points in between. The common thread in Morris' stories, both early and late, is an odd, intense vision of life after nearly all passion has been spent. Well into their marriages, husbands and wives coexist in uneasy truces, wondering whether their remaining energies will run in tandem or blow each other apart...
...INNOVATE or not to innovate? 'Tis it nobler to experiment with the basic texts of English theater or to remain faithful to the immortal words of the Bard? Lisa Freinkel's production of Macbeth answers these questions with resounding indecision. Actors in odd costumes stride about on a modishly surreal set, but the performance never takes us anywhere we haven't been before...
...THIS WEIRDNESS the portrayal of the three witches (Allison Brody, Sarah Jane Cohen, and Celia M. Wren) as grade-school girls instead of old hags: their giggling and maledictions sung like nursery rhymes creates an odd but real menace. But the originality of this show gives out long before the final curtain, as it shies away from severely tampering with the conventions and gives us a typical collegiate run through the Riverside Edition...