Word: curious
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...love is already threatened by Natalia’s parents, people of society who are hesitant to allow their daughter to marry such an eccentric. Yet Natalia nimbly maneuvers her way between each of these parties. Her success or failure (and Luzhin’s) is a curious question that the ending engages yet leaves unanswered...
...estimate, assess, tax;” to Old French taxer, to Medieval Latin taxare; and finally to Latin, “to feel, estimate, censure, (frequentative of tangere to touch).” The tangibility of assets taxed (as well as of the tax itself) is a curious and critical undertone of the process...
After the Temple itself, perhaps. Scholars have hypothesized that the southern steps led pilgrims into a tunnel under an administrative building and out again amid a series of courtyards. The outermost was open to curious Gentiles. The remaining enclosures were for Jews only, as indicated by another of the Temple's remaining relics--a sign, in Greek, warning that any non-Jew passing farther "is answerable himself for his ensuing death...
...prior to and after the disaster that radically reshapes their fates. Inarritu, 37, who has made hundreds of TV commercials in Mexico City, consciously intends his movie to be a portrait of his "dangerous, beautiful" hometown. The film is muy espanol, a portrait that blends harsh realism with a curious tenderness. It is also muy Bunuel, but without his conscious surrealism and with a fierce, cinematic energy that is uniquely Inarritu...
...wonder why the music has not incorporated hip-hop as much. I know you worked with Fab 5 Freddy years ago, and I’m curious about your impression of hip-hop culture...