Word: odd
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...asking for it. Its political system has long been based on the adage that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, or at least my coalition partner. Since 1984 Israel has claimed to have a government of national unity, a misnomer if ever there was one. The odd couple of Likud and Labor never had a unified position, or even reconcilable differences, on the most important issue of national security and national identity: What are the boundaries of the Jewish state...
This lingering sensitivity, which I am chagrined to confess, has been exaggerated by the cities where I have lived and the work that I do. Both New York and Washington revere the Ivy League like Club Med worships tanned bodies and a strong backhand. Odd how when visiting the Midwest I drop the University of Michigan into conversation with an avidity I rarely display back East. Lawyers and physicists may often rate colleagues by the quality of their professional education, but an enduring adult fascination with undergraduate pedigrees remains acute in the fields I know well, such as journalism...
...bowling, tiddlywinks, horseshoes (a presidential triumph), skeet shooting and wally ball (a version of volleyball played on a handball court). Plimpton was surprised that there were no interruptions or calls all weekend -- until their tennis game. "He threw the ball up to serve and the phone rang -- a very odd thing to hear in a forest." The Commander in Chief strode over, picked it up, listened for a moment, and looked at Plimpton. "It's for you," he said...
There is clearly a lot to be angry about, but it is a little odd for Wiesenthal to title his rancorous book Justice, Not Vengeance. One can argue that vengeance is a private reprisal, whereas justice comes from an impartial authority, but the two seem very tightly (and understandably) intertwined in the mind of Simon Wiesenthal...
...seem to forget this fact, using modern staging and language inappropriately. Often, the perfectly obvious bawdiness of many lines is unnecessarily exaggerated by lude gestures. Lines like, "I had to work off my butt to learn amo, amas, amat" have a disconcerting incongruity to them. And the costuming, an odd blend of blue jeans and Renaissance-like kitsch, is innovative without purpose...