Word: oddness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...concert audience that wants to hear only the greatest hits, they didn't know what to make of Obama's unfamiliar material as he honed his message and started spelling out his policies. The candidate was confused as well. "The expectations," he tells TIME, "are elevated to this odd level. Even when we do the spectacular, people discount it. If we have a crowd of 23,000 people in a red state in the spring, people sort of say, 'Ho hum.' We've raised more money from small donors than all the other Democratic candidates combined, and from a standing...
...early Liberal casualty), he was bewildered by the rejection of Howard's robust economy. "If you want a job in Australia, you can get one. How many countries can say that?" A pretty brunette, leaning over just enough to drip champagne on the carpet, added, "It's a really odd time to throw out a government...
...Odd or not, by 10 p.m. Howard had phoned his congratulations to Kevin Rudd, and Sky News announced the P. M.'s imminent arrival. A couple of diehards carrying a JOHN HOWARD FOREVER banner pushed roughly through the photographers lining the stage, careless of a supposedly left-leaning media complicit in Rudd's triumph. As one tried to protect his camera, a rugby league player in an expensive suit grabbed his shirt, snarling, "It's you f___ people's fault. Are you happy...
Arab refusal to cooperate with the Israeli authorities has some odd consequences. In a Jerusalem telephone book, for example, maps of Arab neighborhoods are blank, like unexplored parts of the Amazon in the 19th century. That's because no Arab sits on the municipal committee that chooses street names. On the rare occasion when the committee bothers with East Jerusalem, it is to irritate the Arabs by naming a few streets after Israeli war heroes. Mail is seldom delivered there, and having no street names adds to the Arabs' perception that in Israeli society they are either invisible, nonexistent...
...individual’s right to privacy (this is similar to the justification for a woman’s right to birth control). For years, pro-choice advocates rallied behind the idea that abortion was a private decision by a woman exercising dominion over her body. There is something odd about encouraging a woman who has exercised a private right to go public with it. This irony is apparently lost on the “Speak Out” movement.What is most troubling is that this pro-choice movement of speaking out is not a push for women?...