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...even if Filonov's work is intellectually driven, his singular style marks it out, beginning with his palette. In works like the gloomy Feast of Kings (1913), as Kruchenykh noted, he used a peculiar combination of "bloody red and greenish brown"; for his optimistic and joyful painting with the Boratesque title Formula of the Universal Shift Into the World Blooming Through the Russian Revolution (1922), he mixed white and reddish pink in a way that is unmistakable...
...Examine the peculiar photographs of the New Hampshire State Charitable and Correctional Institutions...
Fame has a peculiar way of reducing an individual to a couple of arbitrary acts. Ira Hayes, the Pima Indian and World War II Marine, was given his slot in the historical record for two things: he helped raise the flag at Iwo Jima and died an alcoholic - both of which were widely chronicled in the media and in a song by Johnny Cash. This past fall, the complete story of Hayes's life was laid bare in Clint Eastwood's epic film Flags of Our Fathers, coming out on DVD. Cast as Hayes was Adam Beach, whose stirring portrayal...
...Even in their particulars of age and political preference, the data are peculiar. Liberals and moderates go for Washington (not Clooney?), while conservatives prefer Wayne and, whoa, Hanks (not Mel?). Agewise, Wayne is #1 with the baby boomers; but Roberts wins the hearts of the AARP set, which you might have thought the Duke would...
This is an oversimplification, of course. Other neurotransmitters, and even plain glucose--the sugar the brain uses for energy--may also play a part. And then there's the peculiar case of a woman who contacted McGaugh because she remembers absolutely everything. The stress-hormone model does not appear to apply in her case. Says McGaugh: "At one point I asked if she knew who Bing Crosby was. She's 40, so Bing Crosby doesn't loom large in her life, but she knew he died on a golf course in Spain, and she gave me the date, just like...