Word: peculiarity
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...purists, and it may puzzle those few remaining gentlefolk who are uninterested in the offstage carryings-on of picture people. But the film does capture, in satirically exaggerated tones, certain recognizable film types and the hyperbolic, hyperactive way they address one another during the many waiting-around hours their peculiar occupations impose upon them. This does not entirely compensate for the short weight this picture gives mystery fans or for its technical shoddiness. But the good lines make Mirror more fun to watch than it has any right...
Samuel Johnson, who fathered the first English dictionary, set one peculiar standard by which contemporary dictionaries might still be judged. Johnson collected more than 100,000 words, mostly by memory, and his definition of "network" set a lofty and graceful standard in lexicographic science: "anything reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections." The OAD effort has an admirable simplicity ("an arrangement or pattern with intersecting lines") and certainly surpasses the bulky Webster entry ("a fabric or structure of cords or wires that cross at regular intervals and are knotted or secured at the crossings") but neither...
...lost all consciousness of the outer world, and has to be fed intravenously, He never moves or reacts to external stimuli, but sometimes, they tell me, he twitches in a peculiar way as if he is beating time...
South House's production of the play is long on energy and humor, but short on tension and meaning. Director Steve Drury maintains a quick pace by emphasizing punchy one-liners and alternating settings, but it is a peculiar quickness without tension. The audience merely waits from one witty remark to the next without expecting or hoping for any particular action. Wasserstein's views come across, but not forcefully, and they seem less relevant to life at Harvard than they ought...
After a Penn punt the Crimson took over at its own 33 with exactly two minutes to go and proceeded to engage in one of the most peculiar drives of this or any other season. First, Acheson went 53 yards off tackle, only to have the run called back for illegal procedure. But Buckley worked the clock like a master and moved his team and a nine-yd. pass to Beatrice moving Harvard to the Penn three with 32 seconds to go in the half...