Word: curious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although it is almost 8 p.m. as Beebe speaks, curious pedestrians are still dropping in to look around. One mustachioed visitor, quickly identified by staffers as Kurt Vonnegut, chats amiably for about ten minutes before signing autographs and leaving. "That was Kurt Vonnegut, the author. He just walked right in," bubbled Tina Rosenberg, a 20-year-old press aide...
...DETROIT--Curious how the unwavering mood of most Republicans gathered for the national convention in the Motor City is unswerving conservatism. Sensing a coast-to-coast crystallization of right-wing thought, GOP delegates seek to ride the tide to the Oval Office. While the rarified atmosphere of a convention can blur vision, it appears that today's smart money is on Ronald Reagan to win the presidential sweepstakes...
...Securities and Exchange Commission became curious about National Kinney after learning that the number of its shares traded on the American Stock Exchange had precipitously jumped from an average 7,000 a day to over 100,000 daily for a while. Investigators obtained a list of traders, and the trail led to Joanna Carson and the others. Under terms of a settlement with the SEC, the four insiders must turn over their profits to the original stock owners...
Some hugely successful novels have spawned a curious mass-market samizdat that differs sharply from the writings of dissidents. The newest underground hit is At the Last Frontier, a trashy historical novel by Valentin Pikul about Grigori Rasputin, the sexy, self-styled holy man who held the Russian imperial family in thrall. Originally published in the magazine Our Contemporary, which has a circulation of 300,000, the novel caused a sensation as much for its scenes of debauchery as for its virulent antiSemitism. Unfavorable reviews, which criticized the book for its non-Marxist attitudes and hostile treatment of Jews, merely...
Kubrick seems to have run out of time, to have removed part of the plot and left other parts so that the story remains confusing. At worst, it is incomprehensible; at best, it requires a curious patience that will sort though the bizarre imagery for the right link. Yet the triumph of the extraordinary amidst the ordinary makes a frightening film...