Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...long the victim of historical circumstance, Africa is finally a beneficiary. The end of the cold war freed countries from 30-odd years of disastrous involvement in the superpowers' proxy conflicts. Old ideologies crumbled, taking with them the failed socialist methods of Marx and opening the way to capitalist reforms. The demise of apartheid gave the continent a huge psychological--and economic and political--boost. A generation of African leaders who grew up to despise the exploitation of postcolonial dictators and kleptocrats has begun to supplant them...
...rather odd side effect: The FDA reports that 3 percent of users experienced a temporary vision disturbance that left them unable to distinguish between the colors blue and green. Just keep the lights...
...game--which, of course, is the point. In an effort to grab a young male audience, ESPN's book is oversize, a la Spin or Vibe, with a hip tone, stylish graphics and hide-and-seek typefaces. A section up front offers quirky tidbits like a chart showing an odd correlation between the number of letters in the names of each year's NCAA men's basketball champion and Best New Artist Grammy Award winner. (You cared, right?) There's news as well: the magazine uncovers a scoring error from earlier this season that means University of Connecticut star Nykesha...
...Ashdown is no longer being used by the university. Dr. G.K. Dudden--as Gregory is now known--has instead acquired the hall and converted it into a clinic for the study of sleep disorders. Having never met Terry during their college days, Dudden doesn't find it at all odd that the now well-respected film critic has agreed to visit the clinic after sitting through a 10-day film marathon without falling asleep once. In fact, it is Dudden's distantly-familiar female colleague, Dr. Madison, who makes the connection that both men once lived in Ashdown, the first...
...odd that so much has been made of Bill Clinton's friendships with the Hollywood crowd. It doesn't seem to have done him much good as far as movies are concerned. Whatever else his legacy may be, Clinton will be remembered as the man who was in the White House when Hollywood decided to release one film after another that makes the place a cross between the Playboy mansion and Dracula's castle. Maybe as some kind of compensatory gesture, the movies have also lately given us the President as cartoonish action hero: Harrison Ford in Air Force...