Word: peculiarities
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...doesn't compare to the cost of another week's panties. For three semesters now, 'Jean at Jockey has had his eye on my drawers. I have a collection of inspection stickers to prove it. Is he a sexual paraphiliac, an overly enthusiastic worker or does Jockey have really peculiar hiring policies...
...drug's effects are both scarier and, somehow, more prosaic: "Micropsia and macropsia (or megaplosia) have been frequently reported [as well as] the sensation that [people and objects] are rushing toward [the user] at tremendous speed, increasing in size as they approach." He doesn't mention that this peculiar sensation can happen stone-cold-sober when trying to get an autograph at Disney World. I was seven. I was so excited. I walked right up to the Mouse and thrust a pen in his face. Suddenly, I heard a disconcertingly masculine voice emanating from the oversized plastic head...
...what's it like to be on the other end, to be the person actually caught in a peculiar laundry situation? Jay B. Shah '98 knows the feeling. "I was kind of down on this really cold day, and I kept falling asleep in my chair while waiting for my clothes to dry," Shah describes, "I felt the dryer, and it was nice and warm, so I put my head on top of it. Then the dryer stopped. As I opened it, warm air rushed out at me and lulled me right to sleep. I must have been asleep with...
...their director, David Levine. When the play opens with Nella, we know we are already standing on unsure ground. In Marolachakis's hands, Nella's dialogue seems to come from a place both ancient and newborn. Her opening monologue in which she declares, "you always live downwind of something peculiar," feels just right...
...sits in the compartment of a railway carriage. Its upholstery, its projecting headrests and Podro's clothes are rendered in broad swipes of the brush and suggest an unease that is close to violence. The man is on the very edge of his seat, his arm cocked at a peculiar rhetorical angle, his hand on his thigh. We have seen this pose before. It is that of Rembrandt's Polish Rider: the mysterious young man setting out through the dark landscape on a bony horse. And indeed, the head of that horse materializes in the seat of the carriage. Through...