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...definitive biography; Eliot's estate, following the poet's wishes, stands staunchly in the path of any such study. But T.S. Eliot: A Life does more than make the best of a difficult situation; it offers the most detailed portrait yet of an enigmatic and thoroughly peculiar genius...
More than balance, the Bulldogs have had that peculiar knack for scoring in the clutch...
...most peculiar twists of the 1984 campaign, St. John's apocalyptic vision of the "End Times" emerged last week as a political issue. During the final presidential debate, Panelist Marvin Kalb of NBC asked Ronald Reagan, "Do you feel that we are now heading, perhaps, for some kind of nuclear Armageddon?" While Nancy Reagan gasped, "Oh, no!" to companions, the President answered that, yes, he had chatted with people about "the biblical prophecies of what would portend the coming of Armageddon and so forth, and the fact that a number of theologians for the last decade or more have...
...THEIR subjects that make Tennesee Williams's plays unique. The obvious and oblique references to homosexuality, or the peculiar view of the South that can be both proud and self-deprecating are both taken up by other playwrights. And Williams can't lay sole claim to heavy-handedly spelling out the message for the audience, either...
...museum's peculiar exterior is delusive. The deep bands of brick glazed in earth tones correspond to analagous bands of color inside, where they denote the building's five stories. What appears to be an irregular window pattern from the outside makes sense upon entering the building, since the windows are placed to give maximum illumination for the rooms behind them...