Word: peculiarities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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People referred to this before but Harvard is, to some extent, an isolated and isolating place. It doesn't have to be. I don't have to be. I don't think that is peculiar to Harvard, but I can see a lot of lonely people here who just go back to their rooms after their seminar. In The Development of Law there is some sense of community, and may be this is partly because it is a House course. There are refreshments and all the little mechanisms do add up to a looseness and an easiness like with people...
...Europe. Koch's book will soon be joined by Gov. Mario M. Cuomo's, who will soon provide the other side of his victory over Koch in the bitterly gubernatorial race. Sen. Alfonse M. D' Amato (R-N.Y.) promises a soon-to-be-released chronicle of his own peculiar rise to fame and power...
...Boston affiliate, showed a half-hour program last week called This Secret Should Be Told, featuring Therapist-Ventriloquist Susan Linn and her two star puppets, a girl duck and a boy lion. The puppets encourage children to "tell a trusted adult" whenever they have been touched in a peculiar...
...WITH HALF THE MOVIE to go, she finds herself torn between her love--punctuated with every token of affection peculiar to the PG genre--and her amorphous fear of having a relationship with a rock star. With his lime waiting for their second date, she flips. "Doesn't it bother you drawing attention to yourself like this...
Young Candy was, of course, the daughter of Edgar Bergen, the enormously popular ventriloquist who delighted the country Sunday evenings on radio's Chase & Sanborn show. But that meant that she was also the little sister of Charlie McCarthy, Bergen's cheeky, insulting, wise-guy dummy. A peculiar sibling rivalry existed, in fact, that went far beyond the obvious joke kept alive by newspaper feature writers. Charlie was a startling alter ego for the dour Swedish ventriloquist-that was what Candice Bergen made the act work so well-and he was already a star when Candy was tiny...