Word: peculiarities
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...peculiar thing happened these last two weeks. America lost the enthusiasm and frenzy it displayed just four years earlier during the 1996 Games in Atlanta. NBC's ratings for these Games were among the worst ever, partly because of the time difference and partly because the games were held in the middle of American autumn...
...this P2P company. By the time the case reaches a final verdict, in six months or a year, some other hotshot P2P site--Gnutella, perhaps, or Freenet--might have become flavor of the month. Napster, for all the storm and fury it has engendered, could be remembered as a peculiar millennial trend--like those little chrome scooters--rather than an epochal event...
America has always carried on a peculiar and somewhat messy love affair with Puritanism. True, the original group of sober, brown-hatted colonists have long since slipped into the darkness of New England cemeteries and Barker Center seminars, their memories preserved only through The Crucible and the grimly authoritarian spire of Mather House. But the Puritan impulse, with its mix of overheated moralism and apocalyptic fervor, is alive and well in American politics. And the most puzzling of these latter-day Puritans emerge every election season, toting charts and graphs and public policy initiatives, all intended to prove what their...
...Screen Actors Guild, of course, isn't the Teamsters. "We have a very peculiar union," says Kirk Douglas, a SAG member since 1942. "Most unions, everybody makes about the same salary. In ours, some people make $20 million a picture and others are struggling to make enough money to live on. In my humble opinion, which is not so humble, the others have always been cheated...
...individual productions. Senior Jay Chaffin transformed from a condemned Spaniard-with-a-song-in-his-heart into a gambling New Orleans philanderer; Ari Appel '03, the guitarist in La Mancha's orchestra, took a turn across the boards as Stanley in Streetcar. Dan Cozzens '03, in a rather peculiar instance of ethnic globalization, went from Russian to Mexican in a matter of weeks...