Word: peculiare
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...Transylvanian princess. Dracula's glimpse of her photograph sets the stage for the love story which drives the film. Although a monster, Dracula is a rather compelling romantic hero--top hat, John Lennon glasses and all. Oldman successfully evokes the quirky, bordering on psychotic, vulnerability he brought to other peculiar roles in "Sid and Nancy" and "Track...
...mood at Harkness Commons at Harvard LawSchool was one of heady self-righteousness. Twentyor so eager law students greeted Clinton gainswith hoots and applause. They reacted to losseswith groans and peculiar guttural noises...
...Batman soundtrack matched theblackness and quirkiness of the film. He treatedthe audience to a stylistic journey ofimpressionistic music. Each track was written forparticular characters and actions in the filmgiving them his own peculiar spin. From thedanceable "Batman" to the haunting "Arms ofOrion," Prince demonstrates his creativeabilities...
...Moscow last December researching a book we have been writing on the end of the cold war. On Dec. 14, one of Gorbachev's closest aides asked us to convey a message to James Baker, who was due in the Soviet capital the next day. The approach was less peculiar than it may sound. The Soviet Union was disintegrating; its last leader, then 11 days from resigning, was already in limbo. Gorbachev and his loyalists believed that the U.S. embassy had long since become a nest of Yeltsinites and would not be a reliable channel to Baker...
Former Yale University President Benno C. Schmidt Jr. spoke about the role of presidents and trustees in meeting the "peculiar circumstance"--a term he said he preferred to "financial crisis"--facing American universities today...