Word: peculiare
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...would taunt the gangly, bespectacled high school student and slap his books from his hands. His former classmates and teachers at Dexter High School remember him as having one or two friends but also, as one puts it, "some exotic ideas." Several remember he wore fatigues to school, a peculiar fashion choice at that time. He also brought his fascination with secret places with him. History teacher Hank Flandysz remembers lecturing one day when a noise emanated from beneath the floorboards. "I walked over, and there was a trapdoor in the floor that led into some maintenance tunnels for access...
...work was considered so strange, I used to make a living doing tattoos," says Marten. "The field is much more creative now." Kunz adds that taking a drawing from an outline of an idea to publishable art in two days (the standard turnaround time for newsweeklies) has its own peculiar rewards. "I like it best," she says, "when it's over." We know how that feels...
...peculiar scene is playing out in lawyers' offices around the country, reports Joseph Rem Jr., a defense attorney from Hackensack, New Jersey, who has been practicing criminal law for 20 years. These days the people who walk into his office expect an O.J. Simpson-style defense. "They want to contest all the scientific information against them," he says, and they talk about impaneling a mock jury, just as O.J. did. "They're now asking, 'What kind of jurors are you looking for?'" reports Rem, who has to break it to each new client, gently, that O.J. is different...
...make my proposal selflessly, objectively, recognizing that from a programming standpoint, Windows isn't exactly poetry. It's counterintuitive and clunky, which is peculiar after all these years. Microsoft, you'll recall, came into being when Gates licensed to IBM his Disk Operating System, or DOS, which was supposed to make PCs easier to use. Later, Windows was supposed to make DOS easier to use. And a few months ago, Microsoft unleashed something called Bob, a program that's supposed to make Windows easier to use. Until a Bob helper is born, you can look forward to reading -- I swear...
...This peculiar character was shared by other still-life artists in Spain, who turned their tables into arrays of symmetrical dishes and vases that have the liturgical solemnity of altars. Such abstraction persists even in the more materialistic work of Juan van der Hamen y Leon (1596-1631), whose "aristocratic" still lifes are arranged on different levels like an architectural stage, glittering with invitation. Each detail--the sheen of silver, the frosting of sugar and spice (real luxuries then) on a macaroon or a doughnut, the translucency of candied fruit--speaks of privilege...