Word: odd
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...really odd," Rauch says. "Last year he definitely became the right wing of the council...
...make more kick in 28% on all their income, the government puts a larger bite on the high end of their earnings. So for the same joint filers, the marginal tax rate jumps from 28% to 33% on taxable income between $78,400 and $162,770. Then comes the odd part: it drops back down to 28% on income above that level...
Despite its intensity, the antipathy toward Congress will have negligible impact on the midterm elections three weeks from now. Odd as it may seem, most voters exempt their own representatives from the contempt they hold for Congress in general. The local officeholder who does favors for constituents, attends parades and sends newsletters to the home folks often comes across as a benign exception to the general image. Of the 406 members of the House seeking re-election this November, only about 30 face serious opposition. The rest either are running unopposed or enjoy such a huge financial advantage that they...
VOICE OF THE PLANET (TBS, Oct. 15-19, 8:05 p.m. EDT). William Shatner plays an author who talks with the spirit of Earth (the voice of Faye Dunaway) about the planet's ecological problems. Ted Turner's environmental passion takes an odd mystical turn in this week-long series...
SURRENDER THE PINK, by Carrie Fisher (Simon & Schuster; 286 pages; $18.95), is the sort of novel writers write between novels, about the sort of love affair a young woman might have between affairs. It has the odd quality of being funny and well written, despite an occasional outbreak of coupling adverbs ("passionately, tenderly"). But it is utterly unmemorable. The author can't seem to care much about her heroine, a pretty but underexposed young woman named Dinah Kaufman who writes soap operas in Los Angeles. Although Dinah likes sex and wants to be in love, the men she meets...