Word: quirks
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...California, he has duties that are largely ceremonial and unnoticed. Just before he was reelected last November, a poll showed that only 59% of California voters knew who he was, despite his six years in the state assembly and four years as lieutenant governor. But because of a quirk of electoral politics--and because no other Democrat wanted to take the plunge--Bustamante, 50, became the "just in case" candidate for his party in the current recall election. He is the party's pick if the Republican juggernaut succeeds in driving his unpopular boss, Governor Gray Davis, out of office...
...smile lit up a room even more. More than anything else, De Remer the sports fiend was about joy. Scary joy, perhaps—I can remember being accosted by Dave at the Crimson one night as he revealed, with the exultant urgency of the Archangel Gabriel, some quirk in the field hockey NCAA selection criteria that no one had ever noticed. Scary joy, sometimes, but always joy. The reporting feats were superhuman. The smile was simply super... human. Long live Dave...
...well as the sadness from which that desire comes and the courage it takes to make the sadness so funny, all at the same time. If anything, Dry is even more compelling than Burroughs' first outing, if only because the material is less rich: he is less the walking quirk this time and more just a brave, funny, unhappy human being...
...selection of the place and the activities gives couples the chance to express their uniqueness and create their own world. Brooklyn-based artists Amy Madden, 29, and Christopher Quirk, 41, who met as students in Rome, got married privately in New York City in September 2002, and six weeks later they staged a wedding that reflected their artistic interests at the Castello di Montegufoni, a castle in the Tuscan countryside. Sixty guests stayed in the castle for a week, during which friends and family joined the couple in reciting poetry and enacting scenes from The Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio's 14th...
What would you consider to be your biggest quirk...