Word: peculiarities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...theater saying not, "Wow, that was a moving play," but rather. "I have never thought about them that was before" Brecht armed to achieve this effect by alternating his audience through stage techniques like pantomime, signboards which reveal the plot prematurely and thus kill the suspense and often through peculiar Kurt Wcill songs steamy or jazzy cabaret numbers about the most serious subjects...
...phenomenon is not peculiar to those people who have never been interested in sports in general. It also encompasses those who read Leigh Montville daily and entertain themselves frequently by playing catch. The number-of fans who remain faithful to professional baseball has dropped alarmingly...
...foreign journalists based in Jerusalem, the story came less as a surprise than as a confirmation of long-held suspicions. Correspondents often swap stories of intrusions into their telephone calls. They have also noted peculiar mechanical disruptions in the wire transmission of stories that they did not submit to prior censorship because, they contended, the stories did not breach matters of national security...
...Managers ordered tens of thousands of cars built so that they could boost production figures, as well as their bonuses. Most of the vehicles were eventually sold to dealers at cut-rate prices, often after months of outdoor storage had taken their toll. lacocca's cure for Chrysler's peculiar addiction to production mandates was to kill the sales bank. The company took some heavy losses to sell off its backlog of inventory, but once the last car was gone, Chrysler stopped making cars on speculation...
That rape, and especially gang rape, is a crime of terrifying seriousness need hardly be repeated. But the particularly heinous and peculiar nature of this rape merits special attention. This rape had an audience. In fact, there were at least a dozen men in Big Dan's Tavern that night who watched and cheered as the victim suffered. Not one man, not even the bartender, moved to stop the rapists. No one called the police. Their reaction, or rather lack of one, to what must have been a gruesome spectacle is more than reprehensible it is mind-boggling...