Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that (for now) career White House don't-wannabe, Colin Powell. That's not to say the event won't be presidential. For one thing, he's getting help from some guys named Clinton, Bush, Carter and Ford. Plus, at current count, half the Cabinet and 4,000-odd other bigwigs of various stripes...
...Erdrich and Dorris pressed attempted-theft charges against Jeffrey, who had been working at odd jobs around the country, and was living in Denver. The charges stemmed from a rambling, five-page letter he wrote from the Denver County Jail, where he was awaiting prosecution on misdemeanor charges of beating his girlfriend. He wrote, "Think about what we put up with as helpless children. You beat us senseless, you terrorized us, you made us walk on eggshells, we feared you, and then Louise comes onto the picture. Instead of stopping his abuse, she kicks in." He blamed his own troubles...
...series. I knew all of the flavors in the store. By the end of my stint working for this campaign, I became convinced that I ought to work at Baskin-Robbins, since I could better advise customers on selections than the store's own staff. Ice cream is an odd drug of choice, especially for me. It's not as if I live in Florida. Oh, wouldn't that be nice. The weather in New York is a bit on the chilly side for a good portion of the year, to say the least. During the winter...
Should we think it odd that an exhibition attempting to survey 1000 years of Chinese painting begins with this strange pairing of ancient sculptures--works that have been wrenched from diverse geographic and historical contexts to serve as an introduction to an unfamiliar artistic culture? Perhaps, but not because such a juxtaposition fails to address important issues for Chinese painting. In fact, the dramatic meeting of the two religious traditions, Buddhism and Daoism, and their dialogue with a third belief system, Confucianism, is the intellectual thread that Matsutaro Shoriki Curator of Asiatic Art Wu Tung attempts to draw across...
BORN. To TONY RANDALL, 77, TV series The Odd Couple neatnik Felix Unger, and second wife HEATHER HARLAN, 27, an actress; his first child, Julia Laurette; in New York City...