Word: peculiare
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...been half a century since Harvard has met a nationally-prominent opponent in football. Yet, every February, two peculiar and potent basketball teams venture into our 'hood, one night after the other...
...that has already been done by this scandal, some good may yet come out of it. Greater awareness of the scope of sexual harassment litigation and the unrestrained jurisdiction of independent counsels to probe the lives of the accused may finally cause a long-overdue revision of these two peculiar facets of the American justice system...
...White House whistle blower, life wasn't at the right tempo for Tripp. In the '90s, she had mostly worked as a secretary and logistics aide, a planner and coordinator for the powerful men in the White House and the Pentagon. She belonged to a class not peculiar to Washington but well represented there--those proximate enough to power to see its realities but not vested with sufficient authority to effect change. It was frustrating. "She wanted to do things her own way," says a Pentagon official. Others saw her demanding nature as a virtue. "She always wanted things done...
Today it is Lotto's strangeness that enchants--or, more precisely, the way he assimilates strangeness into naturalism. The show includes what must surely be the most peculiar image of the Annunciation ever painted. We're looking into the Virgin's chamber. She is in the foreground, looking girlish and distraught, facing you and throwing up her hands as though she were appealing for help. And why not? The angel, bearing the news that God has just impregnated her (you can see God in the background, as invasive and patriarchal as could be), seems to have fairly burst into...
Despite the many interested parties, everyone says the answer rested solely with Seinfeld--as he puts it, "This was between me and the show." The decision, when it finally came, was based on one of those peculiar divinations that Seinfeld thrives on. "I felt ... the Moment. That's the only way I can describe it," Seinfeld explains in the tone of voice the TV Jerry might use to delineate a date's faux pas. "I just know from being onstage for years and years and years, there's one moment where you have to feel the audience is still having...