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...Terriers have a peculiar habit of capturing the Beanpot trophy--they've won the last...
Kerrigan claimed the Confederate banner represented her pride in the customs and traditions of the South, but many felt that those traditions could not be separated from the South's "peculiar institution"--slavery...
...special effects -- they mostly involve flying -- have a nice, tossed-off air about them. The sets are spectacular, but their scale and luxe become oppressive. And they impose a peculiar burden on the director. He has a terrific way with action sequences, a genius for inventive detail that reads clearly even at his preferred pace, which is warp speed. But even he has to strain to fill these spaces; and his resort to a food fight, symbolizing Peter's rebonding with his old pals, the Lost Boys, is dismal and realized without conviction...
...America is the land where the world goes in search of miracles and redemption, California is the land where Americans go. It is America's America, the symbol of raw hope and brave (even foolish) invention, where ancient traditions and inhibitions are abandoned at the border. Its peculiar culture squirts out -- on film and menus and pages and television beams -- the trends and tastes that sweep the rest of the country, and then the rest of the world. If California broke off and dissolved in salt water, America would lose its seasoning...
...prints of Christian crosses are among the most mesmerizing in the show. "Cross, San Rafael, California" (1932) is probably the most unnerving of these. The landscape, vacant and unadorned, is dominated by a tall, thin, utterly white cross. To add to the atmosphere of peculiar barrenness, Adams tilts the perspective. The power of ambiguity is awesome. The cross demands adherence yet remains barely standing--at once domineering and impotent...