Word: curious
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Aside from the regulars are the simply shy but curious sorts. One recent customer browsing the Hubba Hubba selection, local bartender Jonathon M. Newell, would say only that he was "looking for something special" and that he didn't "care to elaborate...
...Vice President, made a profession out of going to funerals, passed up the rites for Atwater to go bonefishing in the Florida Keys; he sent Dan Quayle to the South Carolina ceremony and attended a Washington memorial service near the end of the week. It was a curious decision. Atwater, more than any other person, was responsible for Bush's 1988 election triumph and was, Barbara Bush once said, "like a son" to the First Family...
This dichotomy between art and ideology is a curious one. Certainly, the technical merit of a work of art is morally neutral and should be judged separately from the content. But to demand that only the former quality be the basis for judging a work's value is to deny art's role in human life and its purpose of conveying and influencing human thoughts and experiences. The value of a work to the viewer and society--which is what the NEA judges are judging when they allocate our society's money--depends on both style and content...
...clash between supporters and opponents of gay rights has produced a frustrating dilemma for me--and probably for a lot of other curious spectators too. As a heterosexual who sympathizes with the plight of gays in America, I am embarrassed by the sophomoric and sometimes downright sadistic campaign against them launched by my fellow right-wingers. At the same time, I am similarly repelled by the antics and outrages of the Gay Left that, I fear, will ultimately doom the entire movement...
...actually it wasn't an arm and a leg. More like a finger. Still, because I had done my return with one of those computer software packages that promises no mistakes (and because my name and face were on that computer software package), I was more than a little curious to know just what the error...