Word: curious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doing so, he showed the symptoms of a curious disease that afflicts Presidential contenders who unexpectedly find themselves in an ostensibly commanding position. Call it "The Perils of Prosperity," after the book, or "The Paradise Syndrome," after the Star Trek episode; however described, the arrogance of front-runnership can be dangerous--and Jimmy Carter has a bad case...
...COLOSSEUM BANQUET and Function Room, where Ronald Reagan brought his presidential campaign last month, is a curious restaurant. Squatting in the middle of a glass-strewn parking lot overlooking a smelter, the Colosseum is a little bit of Italy in West Springfield, Mass. After all, there is the Toga Room. And the Julius Room, and the Caeser Room. And the place is curved, in stucco appreciation of the real thing. And there's marble in the bathrooms, except it's peeling near the sinks, where the water has soaked off the backing...
Life grows ever more complicated. Now it seems that the old song notwithstanding, it is impossible to be just a gigolo. This curious little movie actually persuades one to believe that male hustlers have feelings, problems and pain just like everyone else. That is no small feat, considering the attitudes one tends to bring to an examination of a gigolo's life and hard times...
...London and Zurich $670. The price differentials for silver, which had risen even more spectacularly in recent weeks, to a peak of $50 per oz., were equally extreme. In London the metal closed at $37.50, and in New York at $35.50. In some cities, merchants did a curious trade in selling everything from gasoline to bacon for a mere 5? or 10? per gal. or lb.-just so long as customers paid in pre-1965 coins, which were still worth many times face value because of their silver content. Even copper went through contortions. It shone, lost luster, then brightened...
...most curious mix of the real and the absurd, the naturalistic and the impressionistic is a French film based on the diary of a coupe who attempted to cross the Atlantic in a rowboat. The story of their failure both to make the journey or to happily coexist is haunting and moving, replete with terrifying violence and strange sexual fantasies, ending finally with their rediscovered love...