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...peculiar things about filmmaking in the Ivy League,” Rizk says, “is that none of the schools have film schools, so they teach an expressionistic sort of filmmaking and not an industrial sort, which makes the students not very competitive in national competitions. The Ivy Film Festival is designed to cater to the types of programs that exist at these schools...
...brimming with energy as it is stifled, one of Oldham’s first releases, under his original moniker, is an excellent introduction to the paradox that is his peculiar brand of folk-country-rock-core, complete with cracking inflections and murky wordplay...
...decay. But the new town is no pattern-book copy. Its master plan is the work of a husband-wife architectural team from Miami, Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk. The pair spent months examining Southern towns, intent on divining the largely unwritten rules that gave the streets their peculiar character and coherence. Former members of the glitzy neomodern firm Arquitectonica, Duany and Plater-Zyberk produced a set of building instructions for Seaside that require in effect a revival of prewar folk architecture, a sort of cracker vernacular. Says Davis: "Our motto is 'Don't invent anything...
...peculiar thought arises that Smith writes her slightly ramshackle novels in a mood of philanthropy, to give shelter to her vulnerable characters. Good for her, good for them, good for us. --By John Skow Best Sellers...
...thought more about the HIV/AIDS crisis, I began to realize that HIV/AIDS, moreso than most other concerns of our age, sits at the center of a lot of other conflicts and struggles—and in that way, serves as both a peculiar challenge and opportunity. If we are to seriously discuss HIV/AIDS, and more importantly, our responses to it as individuals, communities, or societies, we must necessarily wrestle with issues of sex and sexuality, concepts of masculinity, women’s empowerment, and the relationship between race and moral worth. But these are, of course, some of the more...