Word: quirk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...locked away from chill winds and excitement in a room where he frets that he will be transmuted into a hunchback like his father. Mandy Patinkin plays the father, his deformity barely noticeable but his behavior conspicuously odd: he visits his son only when the boy is asleep, a quirk that never makes psychological sense. In the woods -- including the walled enclave of the title, cultivated by Colin's late mother and now closed up by his father -- live country folk who can talk to animals, notably the puckish Dickon (John Cameron Mitchell). The first act takes a long, slow...
...What's in a name?" Juliet wonders in the famous balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet, as she ponders why a mere linguistic quirk should be an obstacle to her love. "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet," she decides, settling the issue in her mind once...
...heart of all the congressional squabbling over the budget is a bizarre quirk in the income tax code known as the "bubble...
Best of all, for civilians with dreams of glory, anyone with $10,000 and a detectable pulse rate may enter. They won't let you sign up for Wimbledon, will they? Alas, poker is a pure gambling game only in the very short run. Beyond the quirk of a single hand, skill takes over and twirls its mustache. The trouble is that a single hand can run you out of town. Last year's winner, Phil Hellmuth Jr., 24, a tall, weedy youth whose soft face projects an unsettling expression of sweet decay, jukes and twitches to the music...