Word: peculiarities
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...life. Nobody had invited biologists along to study the vents because nobody imagined there would be anything to interest them. But on a dive off the Galapagos in 1977, researchers found the water around a vent teeming with bacteria and surrounded for dozens of feet in all directions with peculiar, 8-in.-long tube-shaped worms, clams the size of dinner plates, mussels and at least one specimen of a strange pink-skinned, blue-eyed fish...
...creepy details are peculiar to Smith's case, but the message to girls is similarly demeaning: Love (of men) is the supreme adventure! The peak experience! The only possible redemption for a worthless little creature like you! And, needless to say, the love celebrated in songs and soap operas and romance novels is not the love for sticky-faced toddlers...
Whistler's Mother remains his most famous painting--up there in the peculiar grab bag of images that for one reason or another, usually unconnected with their quality as art, everyone knows, like the Mona Lisa and Grant Wood's American Gothic. The picture that made his reputation was earlier, and better. Painted in 1862, it is a portrait of his Irish lover, Jo Hiffernan, Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl. Shown in London first and then in Paris, it provoked a buzz of irrelevant interpretation. The expressionless young woman in virginal white, standing on a wolfskin with...
...graduate student and a junior faculty member. In response to the faculty complainant's charges, then-Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Henry Rosovsky found that Dominguez's conduct "constituted a serious abuse of authority" (Time, Nov. 14, 1983). I would argue that Professor Dominguez's peculiar perception of the responsibilities and privileges of his faculty status renders him singularly unqualified to address teaching and learning, and Harvard's inclusion of him in its fund-raising plea is profoundly disturbing. His egregious actions in 1983 undermined education at Harvard and jeopardized the careers of the women involved...
...burr. Britain's Julia Ormond puts a new twist on the familiar Lady Guinevere, giving her a '90s strength to match her fabled beauty. And while Lancelot, played by Richard Gere, is the least inspiring of the three, he still manages to make believable his part in the peculiar love triangle...