Word: singular
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although the target distinguishes the Minnesota native from other goalies as soon as his skates scratch the ice, once in the net Lau's singular goaltending style also separates him from your everyday run-of-the-mill netminder...
...York and Los Angeles, where he has lived for the past two years. He is one of the few journalists who actually keep a daily journal, which he employs here as a film director might use jump cuts. He has the panache to handle the first person singular, although the effect can be cloying when he immodestly quotes himself: "Above all, there was the voice [Sir Ralph Richardson's], which I once described as 'something between bland and grandiose: blandiose, perhaps...
French Historian Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie managed a singular coup last year. His book Montaillou, a painstakingly detailed account of life in a small French town in the Pyrenees at the beginning of the 14th century, became a surprise bestseller. But then, Montaillou was a singular town. The curious beliefs, the robust lives and the sexual proclivities of its townspeople, revealed through the testimony in their subsequent heresy trials, afforded an intriguing peephole into another time...