Word: peculiarities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tropical islands of the South Pacific may be half a world away from the desert sands of Libya, but distance has not deterred Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi from making a number of peculiar Pacific overtures. In the past year Gaddafi's agents have offered arms and cash to rebels in Papua New Guinea, encouraged an aboriginal separatist movement in Australia, shipped weapons to dissidents in New Caledonia and tried to open an office in the island republic of Vanuatu...
...Daisy, an intimate tale of a Southern Jewish woman (Dana Ivey) and her black chauffeur (Morgan Freeman), told in vignettes ranging from just after World War II to the era of the civil rights movement. This little gem echoes decades of social change yet never loses focus on the peculiar equilibrium between servant and served. It reaches a peak when the old woman goes to a banquet honoring Martin Luther King Jr. -- an event her liberal but conformist | businessman son (Ray Gill) refuses to attend -- and cannot quite bring herself to invite the driver to accompany her until the moment...
Quite apart from the subject of sex, the procession of Presidents after Kennedy has included men of rather peculiar and divided psyche. Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter were personalities utterly different from one another, but they all shared, to some degree, an odd, self-thwarting trait. Each became his own worst enemy...
...century Tory, inclined by age and temperament to search in the world's youngest power for the country houses and formal gardens of the Old World. Adam, born into a world whose capital is more Los Angeles than London, is delighted to give himself up to the nation's peculiar enthusiasms, using culture shock as shock therapy. Nigel longs for history; Adam rejoices in its abolition. One typical day, Nigel inquires, "Why do I have to come to Kentucky to experience exactly the sensation of travelling through rural Hampshire in 1810?" Later he goes riding with a top-hatted "squire...
...Higher education is becoming the whipping boy for Bennett for reasons that have less to do with the state of higher education and more with his own peculiar ideas about budgeting and educating," says Harvard Vice President for Government and Community Affairs John Shattuck...