Word: peculiar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...turns out that the villainous UFO is not manned. This is very peculiar, since in the film's opening sequence it is full of weirdos. By the time the Enterprise closes in on it, the creatures have all disappeared, victims not of the story line but of what appears to be a shortage of either money or time. In a very fast shuffle, the film suddenly announces that the villain is not merely a Death Star, but "a great, living machine." When Ilia, the Enterprise's navigator, is captured by the enemy and literally rewired...
...Arctic has a peculiar sense of justice. For every storm in the dead of winter, there is a calm; for every predator, a victim. For the six month day, there is the six month night. Syd Justin knew that, but it didn't stop his stomach from fluttering with anticipation when the small notice in the Edmonton Sun caught his attention...
...novel, which retains the fastpaced, colorful style of his fourth book, "The World According to Garp," relates the antics of the Berry family, their dead dob Sorrow, and the guests in their peculiar hotel. Irving said he hopes to finish it in a year, but he added that he writes very slowly...
...free-swinging essays on the philosophy of art, Schapiro finds that modern artists have rebelled against the use of noble images--religious scenes, Greek myths--as the artistic ideal. They substitute for it a new "pure art" that "derives its effects from elements peculiar to itself," not from the imitation of identifiable objects. This anti-objective style allows for the creation of a "universal art"--one that cuts across time and culture and makes art intelligible to all. Abstraction protects the artist's freedom, which Schapiro calls an "indispensible condition," The loss of the decorum and restraint necessary to traditional...
...conservative bastion that Nixon hoped to create. A decade after Burger became Chief Justice, the Supreme Court is the Burger Court in name only. In part, that is a reflection on Warren Burger and the way he has performed his role. In part, it lies in the peculiar nature of the institution and the complex interaction of the nine individuals who are on the bench...