Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fernand Leger (1881-1955) is the only one of the great early 20th century French Modernists who hasn't had a major museum show in America in nearly half a century. Picasso, Braque, Matisse, Duchamp and others, yes; but not Leger--a fact that is doubly odd, since no French painter, indeed, no French cultural figure of any kind, was more fascinated and stimulated by American culture, or did more to make a bridge between Paris and New York. Now, with an excellent and tightly focused show at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, this has happily changed. Curated...
...moment, there appeared little reason to fear that this first case, however tragic, represented the start of a pandemic. Says Fukuda: "I left thinking, 'You know, this is probably some odd, sporadic thing...
...another odd coincidence, that same August, as Fukuda investigated the new virus in Hong Kong, the quest to understand the 1918 epidemic suddenly gained momentum, with help from a surprising quarter. Out of the blue, Taubenberger got a letter from a retired San Francisco pathologist, Johan Hultin, who had read Taubenberger's paper in Science and saw at last an opportunity for which he had been waiting for nearly a half-century...
...loans and jobs should be insulted by Knowles' estimation of their intelligence. This so-called aid doesn't cost Harvard one crimson cent. To paraphrase a masterfully-written University statement, Knowles is a skilled storyteller. However, much of his version of the particulars surrounding student aid packages is at odd with the facts--facts those at Princeton, Yale and Stanford seem to understand just fine...
...prominence of Elster's name and picture on the front page, under the words "Rape" and "Assault," have damaged Elster's reputation and violated his right to a fair trial. Many more were disturbed by the profile, which included both anonymous quotations and characterizations of the defendant as "odd...