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...originality as an artist began with his peculiar experiences of the natural world, such as the contorted rocks at Cape Creus, near his boyhood home, sculpted into fantastically ambiguous shapes by tide and weather; like faces seen in the fire, these were the foundation stones of what Dali called his "paranoiac-critical method" of seeking dream images. Dali's art may not tap far into his unconscious, but it reveals a great deal about what he imagined his unconscious...
...first seem peculiar that Kirstein's autobiography, Mosaic (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 270 pages; $25), concludes just prior to his successful approach to Balanchine. But he has written other books (Portrait of Mr. B, Thirty Years: The New York City Ballet) about their long collaboration. This time the author, 87, tries to recapture the influences and experiences that led him to Balanchine in the first place...
Readers may be unaware of the peculiar classifications, but library staffers are trained to keep abreast of the cataloguing technology, Amory explains...
...residential real estate market in Cambridge is in a peculiar state of forced equilibrium. The tenants aren't moving, the landlords aren't buying and the rents just stay the same...
Outside the President's immediate family and staff, Betsey Wright is probably Bill Clinton's most passionate defender. As a top aide in Arkansas and on the campaign trail, she was the chief squelcher of controversy and scandal. But now her peculiar combination of roles -- confidant, hatchet woman and business lobbyist -- is proving to be a potential hazard for the Administration. Just last week Wright had to disavow a New Yorker article that quoted her suggesting that Hillary Rodham Clinton had plans to run for the presidency. While most people in Washington know enough to take some of her statements...