Word: strangest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Questions I couldn't figure out, Part Two: This one is perhaps the strangest question in the entire 18-page booklet: "Please assess the contribution of each of the following to the development of your sense of social responsibility and contribution to society." A variety of choices, including "House experience," are listed. Who says Harvard students necessarily have a "sense of social responsibilty"? Who would say that the "House experience" promotes this kind of responsibility? And why is this on a survey about College life? Strange...
...year history, Jardine Matheson & Co. has been the foremost trader in the colony, and as readers of Novelist James Clavell know, it has been run not so much by a series of executives as by a dynasty of merchant-rulers. Now the succession has taken its strangest turn. Instead of drawing from the small Scottish knot of the founders' families, Jardine Matheson has announced that Brian Powers, 38, a former New York investment banker, will become its first American taipan...
...Strangest of all, perhaps, as the fact that this film wasn't even shot well. Frank is known as a legendary still photographer, with such classic works as "The Americans" behind him, and his free handed, experimental film techniques have been much celebrated and imitated. In Candy Mountain, however, his camera work only manages to confirm all your worst fears about a documentary director making a feature film; i.e. what seems immediate and convincing in cinema verite appears only sloppy and amateurish when scripted. It's incredible that some of this footage got used at all: too much rapid panning...
...attend political meetings in 2,943 precincts across the state. Their ostensible purpose is to pick delegates to attend obscure county conventions in March, but the results will be heralded in 76-trombone fashion as the first referendum on the 1988 field. In one of American democracy's strangest eccentricities, these 200,000 dutiful citizens from an atypical prairie and river-soil state could have far more say in sorting out the presidential contenders than anyone else...
...STRANGEST things can set Norman Podhoretz off. It's enough that he gets angry with women for having ambitions higher than cooking for their husbands, or the civil rights movement for not understanding his "Negro problem." But now, Podhoretz is angry with someone you'd think he'd be partial to--a Jewish poet who escaped the evils of Stalin...