Word: peculiare
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...salesman by day and a bespectacled baritone by night, Jeff Bannon has so few facial expressions that he might as well have been stuffed. As Sparky, a stocky fellow who exudes good-guy looks, David Benoit is too jolly to be real. And Leo Daignault, playing Jinx, has the peculiar elfin charm of Andy Hardy...
...suppose that the alleged harassment includes no physical touching, no hands-on (at least, let us assume hands) sex. Even with all hands flat on the desk or table, a peculiar kind of sex can be enacted. If our hypothetical - harasser should, hypothetically speaking, memorize the screenplays of porno flicks for the delectation of his female underlings, he is in effect asking them to participate in a sexual tableau of his own devising. Some men pay women for the same service or patronize 900 numbers devoted to dirty talk. To have to listen to a man's sexual fantasies...
...particular artist's role--is rarely acknowledged. The works in the show are from the Ming and Qing dynasties, a period which spans 400 years. And the artists often allude to masters from even earlier centuries. The heritage presented is extraordinarily unified, and, to the Western mind set, has peculiar implications on the artist's creative role. The exhibit would be more satisfying if it directly addressed the social bases for such a convention-based aesthetic...
...where there is a moral vacuum, there are lawsuits. Around the country, a number of bizarre court cases have cropped up as a result of ambiguities in the rules governing the new technologies. In one peculiar case, a wealthy couple died in a plane accident, leaving two frozen embryos as their only direct heirs; a court decided that the embryos could not inherit the estate. In a case that is still pending, a divorced Tennessee couple are battling over whether the woman has the right to make use of frozen embryos created while the couple were still married...
...Crimson, you've got to endure a tough eight-week comp. If you want to work with kids in Model Congress, you've got to apply. Same for the Model U.N. and Model Senate. The Independent and the Lampoon have comps of their own. So, in their own peculiar way, do Harvard's nine all-male final clubs...