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...case of Boyd is doubly peculiar if you consider the kind of art that was in vogue right through the 1980s: Neoexpressionism. Boyd's trouble was premature Neoexpressionism. His early paintings are fiercer and more abandoned in their imagery than almost anything produced in Germany, and anything at all from America, during the '80s -- the cries of a visionary that didn't have the faintest hope of being heard outside his antipodean isolation, but that mattered a great deal to a tiny coterie of like-minded artists in Melbourne...
Today the question has been muted with time; few other than historians debate the peculiar forces that usurped the rationality and strength of will of so many Germans to the extent that they tolerated Hitler and his agenda. Endless theorizing on the root causes of the Nazi psychological and emotional plague unearths a sad legacy of suffering that did not end with World War Two, but has continued to haunt the European psyche for decades. The broader public has left these questions behind, though, and in many ways the rediscovery of Ionesco's "Rhinoceros" now serves only as retrospective...
...Scientists are usually peculiar people--certainly in 'Jurassic Park' and 'Dr. Strangelove.' But that's the movies industry," Glashow says...
...underworld enforcers; by ambiguous religious operatives representing powers and principalities with no interest in solving the crimes; and, it becomes horribly clear, by the same night stalker they themselves are trying to capture. And at about this time, Moore begins to have doubts: Are Kreizler's own exceedingly peculiar actions explainable by any but the darkest motives...
Gideon Mendel, Network Agency: "Photographers are aware that violence is a valuable commodity. When I heard that some photographers had been at ((the execution; Mendel shot the aftermath)), I said, 'F---, I missed the event.' That's a rather peculiar thing for a human being to say. 'Damn, I wasn't at the scene of a killing.' I am disturbed at seeing hoards of photographers chasing after violence, although I am a part...