Word: curiously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Catering to the Curious...
...rather curious name for a restaurant, and after initial surprise, passersby likely realize that the words have a different connotation in Chinese than they do in English...
...rather curious name for a restaurant, and after initial surprise, passersby likely realize that the words have a different connotation in Chinese than they do in English...
TIME's article on homework [EDUCATION, Jan. 25] might be describing an alarming new epidemic. Yet the reluctance of children to do homework is not new. Moreover, there is a curious silence about television, although you did describe what happened when a mother "tried" banning television for a night. Absent any evidence to the contrary, it seems clear these children are consuming an excessive ration of TV each night. Television is bad enough in itself without pre-empting time that would be better spent on homework. To the extent that there is a homework problem, it is a failure...
...Barbra Streisand ballads ("Misty water-colored MEMMM-RIESSSS"), we have the tiny, crabbed, tear-jerking gestures of guyish intimacy: the game of catch, the hand on the shoulder, the locker room's dopey, he-really-likes-you insults. But no pats on the butt! One of the most curious things I've noticed about male weepies is that--in an effort to diffuse even the suggestion of homoeroticism?--they tend to lack sex of any sort. But who needs that old thing when you've got Dad, a ball and a mitt...