Word: quirk
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...male workers from bringing sexually suggestive materials to work, would have applied as readily to a newspaper brassiere ad as to the crude posters that offended Robinson. Beyond that, she says, Melton's ruling that workers cannot even possess the pornographic calendars clearly violates their First Amendment rights. (One quirk of the case: by shipyard practice, employees could not bring newspapers or magazines to work -- but the pornography...
Fukuyama's point is that even in China, where communism remains the official line, it has lost its "dynamism and appeal" as an idea marching through "History." He is so much under the influence of 19th century German philosophers that he sometimes capitalizes Important Nouns. That quirk is telling: Fukuyama takes the intellectual underpinnings and pretensions of political movements more seriously than almost any politician does. The perfect example is his treatment of communism. That doctrine long ago proved to be a recipe for the accumulation and consolidation of raw power by a conspiratorial elite, not a monument...
...that I do have my own special torture (urging the "fundamentally hellish" Science B-15 upon them). And I have one other quirk...
...producers, who use him to attract controversy -- and viewers -- to their shows?) It's hard to imagine many others being offended by the sappy sermonizing. Sunday Dinner doesn't engage the issue of religious faith so much as gawk at it: belief in God has become a character quirk, like having a funny job or being a witch. Lear has made a valiant effort to break one of TV comedy's last remaining taboos. But God has always been a better straight...
...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...