Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite sophisticated dance technique and works synthesized from good choreography, music and costumes, the performance lacked the emotional electricity that usually accompanies an Ailey program. In addition, it seemed odd that a night dedicated to the theme "In the Black Tradition," did not include Ailey's masterpiece, "Revelations," which celebrates Afro-American gospel, religious, and jazz music...
Moreover, this bizarre devotion is taken for normal. Students should be slavish followers of sports teams. A Harvard undergraduate who doesn't give a damn whether the hockey team wins or loses is thought odd, standoffish. Sadly, the men who run Harvard feel the same...
Though racing in the powerhouse stretch is not unusual, the lightweight fours race was in the opposite direction of the racecourse, facing downstream. These odd features made the race "feel more like a practice," said stroke Lindsay Burns...
...Odd answer from a man moving fleets and armies, contemplating settlements on the planet Mars, spending a trillion dollars a year. Yet therein may lie an overlooked clue about his leadership. He has never taken power for granted. Never shown arrogance in his position, never preened personally in public, always acted--whether he was right or clearly wrong--in the name of the American people. Reagan does not remove his coat in the Oval Office out of deference to the nation's tradition...
...what the French call cohabitation. This refers to the power sharing that will now ensue between Mitterrand and France's resurgent conservatives, led by Chirac's neo-Gaullist R.P.R. and former President Valery Giscard d'Estaing's Union for French Democracy. At the outset, some observers feared that the odd coupling, a direct result of the March 16 parliamentary elections that gave the conservative coalition a narrow parliamentary majority, would produce only paralysis and instability. To others, it promised to usher in a new age of pragmatism, cooperation and maturity in French politics...