Word: peculiarities
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While the success of the Crimson gives Harvard much cause for celebration, it also draws attention to the peculiar status of football as the only varsity sport in which post-season play is banned in the Ivy-League. The presidents of the eight colleges should reverse their current stance prohibiting their football teams from participating in Division 1-AA post-season competition...
...fashioned, romantic heterosexual love in the original Midnight. Its most interesting and lovable characters are con men, hustlers, drag queens and witches. Berendt's narrator revels unrepentantly in Savannah's decadence and its culture of closeted scandal. He falls in love with the city's roguishness, its peculiar brand of dark but endearing degeneracy cloaked in gentility. In short, he is nothing like Cusack's dippy, sententious young idealist. The closest he comes to romance is a date with a drag queen. And he certainly bears no resemblance to the late Elvis Presley, whom Cusack and his sideburns are trying...
PENIS PUZZLE Doctors can't explain why, but since 1970 the rate of boys born with their urinary opening in the wrong place has doubled. This peculiar defect appears in nearly 1 out of 100 male births...
...those, like Maude and Mark, who would entrap her. She is good at duplicity--so good it becomes a habit. Thus she works it on Merton, the sort of weak, handsome man strong women are attracted to and know how to use. Millie, with one of those wilting diseases peculiar to heroines of romantic novels, has no such guile. Imperiled innocence is her lure for Merton, and it may draw him beyond the reach of Kate's conniving...
...weird," an insightful character remarks, upon encountering one of the many bizarre players in Tom Sharpe's new satirical comedy, The Midden. And peculiar the novel certainly is--often funny, at times tedious, but always weird...