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A peculiar nativity scene is causing outraged reactions in Spain.
The fight is a peculiar choice to say the least.
That is, if a peculiar new device is any indication.
Last winter, Donald Trump found himself in a peculiar position.
The match up on the ground is a peculiar one.
The case stems from a peculiar video circulated via WhatsApp.
Gerhard Widmer occupies a peculiar place within computer science research.
"It was a peculiar state to be in," she says.
Calling an injured athlete a coward is a peculiar privilege.
A peculiar smell in the air, a cut of fermentation.
This was not a peculiar Southern obsession, but consistent nationwide.
This amounts to more than a peculiar fact of biography.
Former friends occupy a peculiar space in one's social circle.
It was a peculiar team bonding moment over J.C. Romero.
Serge Gainsbourg inhabits a peculiar place in the cultural conscious.
It is a peculiar blend of the convivial and the hateful.
They take a peculiar pleasure in exposing common sense as nonsense.
A peculiar plague which is still neither understood nor completely dead.
Ivanka Trump has shown a peculiar interest in trademarking voting machines.
Touring is a peculiar thing, it doesn't suit me particularly well.
The mayor of New York City is a peculiar sight here.
But they are featuring a peculiar choice, porn star Stormy Daniels.
Last spring, mathematician Henry Segerman found a peculiar post on Facebook.
The pistol shrimp, aka the snapping shrimp, is a peculiar contradiction.
They gave their daughter, Tolya's mother, a peculiar set of instructions.
Baltimore is a peculiar place, with its own categories of privilege.
Spain's current interest in these prosecutions stems from a peculiar history.
In that regard, Fin is a peculiar title for a debut.
Hosts Nicole Byer and Jacques Torres have a peculiar, perfect chemistry.
Brazilians are bracing for the end of a peculiar election period.
The ''pivot'' has assumed a peculiar place in our common lexicon.
"This is all about a peculiar backlash from Washington," he said.
I couldn't say why I do it, it's a peculiar hobby.
The right to religious exemption is, however, a peculiar kind of right.
FOR a quiet country, New Zealand has a peculiar problem with gangs.
For a sleepy country, New Zealand has a peculiar problem with gangs.
These exclusive garrison-suburbs are a peculiar feature of South Asian cities.
The news of LaRouche's death traveled a peculiar path online this week.
But the digital age has brought with it a peculiar devil's bargain.
Like Bruce Wayne and Clark Kent, Wonder Woman had a peculiar childhood.
It now finds itself in a peculiar position in a changed world.
The two communicated with a peculiar mix of English, German and Arabic.
My father was in a peculiar state: completely articulate and completely delusional.
A peculiar series that uses the historic stock-market crash of Oct.
Dr. Sheltzer wondered if he simply had stumbled across a peculiar case.
It was a peculiar forum for airing grievances against the United States.
"Nation sorry": a peculiar expression, with no referent this reviewer could find.
But because our boss was Alex Jones, this was a peculiar process.
Mr. Prince occupies a peculiar spot on today's highly charged ideological spectrum.
Last year, in a peculiar mood, I went alone to Las Vegas.
Even the yardstick-proportioned bodies and zigzag spaces attain a peculiar authority.
There's a peculiar contradiction and challenge of what we've built [with these platforms].
" She continues, "Touring is a peculiar thing, it doesn't suit me particularly well.
But as the WSJ points out, it's still a peculiar strategy for Walmart.
Before his sentence, Mr Robinson enjoyed a peculiar place in the British establishment.
It's a peculiar decision, considering the florid history of backstabbing between the two.
When describing this change, Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller gave a peculiar defense.
" She continued, "Touring is a peculiar thing, it doesn't suit me particularly well.
Unfortunately, Elliot has yet to find a home for a peculiar, pesky reason.
Today, his work is in a peculiar posthumous phase, both celebrated and elusive.
"This street was always known among locals as a peculiar one," he said.
Nonetheless, several factors came together in a peculiar way, with serious electoral consequences.
The juxtaposition of the imagery and the poetics make for a peculiar opening.
A peculiar herd-like nation," he writes, "often more like automatons than people.
"Touring is a peculiar thing, it doesn't suit me particularly well," Adele wrote.
At last, with a peculiar clang, the top half of the saucer seesawed upward.
Where that leaves consumers is in a peculiar place, existing in two worlds simultaneously.
About nine months earlier, he received a peculiar note from the Lubeck water district.
It's a peculiar event that highlights the unexpected changes wrought by a changing climate.
Xenon is the periodic table's Babadook (Image: Screenshot/YouTube)Xenon is a peculiar element.
The bout took a peculiar turn from the start as Hunt came out kicking.
Kenneth Nicholson's third menswear collection comes at a peculiar moment in the American zeitgeist.
Ms. Haldeman's beguilingly sensuous imagery verges on a peculiar sort of soft cartoon pornography.
"Providence is a peculiar town," said Mr. Hobbs, who is also director of NecronomiCon.
The loss put the Yankees in a peculiar position entering the All-Star break.
My starting point is a peculiar aspect of Trump's climb-down on steel tariffs.
There's a peculiar lack of warmth to Ms. Lapine's production as a whole, however.
A melancholy vibe is in the air, and romance also takes a peculiar turn.
But as the novelty recedes, on further viewing, what remains is a peculiar loneliness.
It has long been apparent that the president has a peculiar eye for talent.
But there is a peculiar logic at the heart of the judicial-bypass system.
Whenever he ate at a Chinese restaurant, he said, he felt a peculiar numbness.
It's a peculiar show that, surprisingly, made us laugh out loud more than once.
Louis Langrée kicks off this year's festivities at Lincoln Center with a peculiar program.
This has led to a peculiar and singularly unproductive fight within the climate community.
A Peculiar Paradise: Florida Photographs by Nathan Benn is out now from powerHouse Books.
But it has also given gaming a peculiar reputation when it comes to representing relationships.
A beluga wearing a peculiar harness has been spotted bopping around a harbor in Norway.
"These folks are a peculiar mix of tough guy and sensitive guy," Mr. López said.
And he had an afro and a peculiar scent, so I walked away from him.
In foreign policy, he showed a peculiar obsession with annexing the modern-day Dominican Republic.
Moreover, if China does want to build a base, Vanuatu would be a peculiar choice.
They make up a peculiar ritual — a day-to-day devotion to deliberately unsophisticated handicraft.
Ridley, AKA Rey, just appeared in a peculiar video posted to comedian Josh Gad's Instagram.
However, Florida voters passed a peculiar proposal that simultaneously bans offshore drilling and indoor vaping.
We writers, in the United States at least, have a peculiar, tortured relationship with power.
" They are "a peculiar herd-like nation," he writes, "often more like automatons than people.
As I made my way to the checkout line, I noticed a peculiar cultural difference.
Today in Science, researchers report a peculiar finding in the brains of mice on ketamine.
And yet a broad sweep of statistics reveals a peculiar weariness spreading through the economy.
Galen's death carries a peculiar power, potentially as deep as the grief that accompanies it.
But it operates in its own, the Media Lab... It's a peculiar part of MIT.
All of these touches make "Hermia & Helena" a peculiar film, one both steely and delicate.
Not my best logic, but at the time it made a peculiar sense to me.
The matter was a peculiar distraction from an otherwise momentous week in Albany, with Gov.
It is a peculiar time for realistic optimists in Washington, inside this church and out.
Not much happens in "Nietzsche and the Burbs," a peculiar new novel by Lars Iyer.
That recording is then used to animate a creature whose movements have a peculiar lifelikeness.
That is what, ultimately, being Spanish means to me: a peculiar way of being European.
Programmed to please, the sexbot has lately developed a peculiar tic: a postcoital tendency toward tears.
But then things took a peculiar turn, laying the groundwork for a host of conspiracy theories.
And CEO Jeff Bezos has found a peculiar place to offer his counterarguments: Amazon's financial filings.
He had a peculiar idea about why the government was coming down hard on the Bundys.
And Danielle's situation seems like a potentially perfect setup for such a peculiar sequence of events.
Dissatisfaction with Reagan's triumph emerged by a peculiar combination of success abroad and stalemate at home.
Studies of FMT for C. difficile and these other conditions have spotted a peculiar pattern, though.
On her last day of work, at age sixty-three, Marie was given a peculiar honor.
But Ms. Longworth has hit on a peculiar sweet spot, where hipsterdom meets Turner Classic Movies.
"Still, in this understandably wounded environment, the promise of a better future creates a peculiar atmosphere."
It's a peculiar thing to be able to re-experience a childhood trauma as an adult.
He hadn't demonstrated any particular strength, only that he could perform a peculiar burlesque of it.
Taken at face value, this sounds like a peculiar installment in the annals of drone sightings.
The absence of fear was a peculiar sensation, akin to coolly scrutinizing my own amputated hand.
"This is moving from a peculiar fringe curiosity to a violent extremist movement," Velayas told the newspaper.
During the first episode, she's called into work on a Saturday to learn about a peculiar assassination.
Hosting a peculiar culture of complex costumes and kaleidoscopic key frames, this stage earned my unbinding loyalty.
One of his latest meme-worthy shenanigans involved a battle with a peculiar opponent: a rain poncho.
It's a peculiar thing; sometimes I can hear about violence and stay detached and able to engage.
The mom was already asleep in her lofted bed when she was awoken by a peculiar feeling.
Rolls-Royce is in a peculiar position when it comes to imagining the future of luxury transportation.
Maybe you've noticed a peculiar marshmallow in your bowl of Lucky Charms, a lumpy, yellow-orange blob.
They held signs, graffitied walls, and messaged stickers with a peculiar, yet familiar face: Pepe the Frog.
But it finds itself in a peculiar predicament: Although its numbers are strong, it is virtually powerless.
Historically, graphic design has had a peculiar and frequently unexamined role in the exercise of political power.
This is my father's fourth parole appearance, and he engages in a peculiar ritual after each one.
The tree's dark grayish brown twigs bear unusual, corky ridges that lend the tree a peculiar angularity.
HE'S GOT A PECULIAR KIND OF NICHE AT THE MOMENT, BECAUSE TECH IS WHERE THERE'S ENORMOUS EXPANSION.
But it is when Mr. Kleinfeld's thoughts turn to soccer that the letter takes a peculiar turn.
Rote questions about how we gentlemen were getting on—usually asked of me—had a peculiar intensity.
It's a peculiar blend of soap opera, earnest workplace drama, and comedy of manners that really works.
The traditional taxi market before the rise of ride-hailing apps was regulated in a peculiar way.
This swarm was curious enough all by itself—and then, on November 11, things took a peculiar turn.
Security firm Elcomsoft, however, claims it has found a peculiar "workaround" when it comes to Apple's time limit.
The internet can be a peculiar place, where some people forget about humanity and go for the jugular.
Female hyenas have three times more testosterone than males, which results in a peculiar and risky labor process.
It is a peculiar comparison—the French gift did not result in the downfall of the United States.
Across from my table was a peculiar shop, with a picture of a full moon on its storefront.
That's a peculiar understanding of self-empowerment, but I don't want to go down that theoretical rabbit hole.
It is, indeed, a peculiar ethic that can only express outrage when violence threatens those closest to us.
Crockford called the BioScience paper a personal attack and a "peculiar brand of 'scientific' smearing" on her blog.
I drew the curtains and immediately fell into a peculiar state of 'drunkenness', characterised by an exaggerated imagination.
The surreal 12-minute film follows a peculiar cast of characters in a series of dubious side plots.
In many ways it's a peculiar environment that won't make or break anyone's career, especially a big man.
"It's a peculiar thing to say when all of the evidence is exactly to the contrary," he continued.
The most novel legal argument stems from a peculiar action Congress took more than a quarter century ago.
This is Hugh (Milo Parker), a Peculiar who has a wild hive of bees living inside of him.
Dr. Márquez Grau exemplifies a peculiar side effect of Puerto Rico's financial crisis: the graying of its doctors.
We're at a peculiar moment when it comes to the environment — a moment of both fear and hope.
The night Lulu left was overcast, the twilight that preceded it a peculiar mixture of orange and ochre.
But no one can avoid associating the name with gayness — which sets Johnny a peculiar kind of challenge.
Fine Arts & Exhibits LOS ANGELES — There is a peculiar, almost shameful, pleasure in visiting Mary Kelly's laundry room.
BANGALORE, India — Every evening, a peculiar convention takes place at Wagah, a village along the India-Pakistan border.
He had no experience in criminal law and had taken Siatta as a client via a peculiar impulse.
Davidson has a peculiar gift for a stand-up: He makes you want to take care of him.
But it masks a peculiar form of denial no one wants to recognize as a potentially terrible mistake.
In the end, perhaps it is that variousness that confers on this artist a peculiar kind of originality.
I sat in my cubicle at work, refreshing Twitter, when I noticed a peculiar difference in the layout.
Tim Burton's adaptation of the bestselling novel Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is a peculiar thing indeed.
That is partly because of the play itself, a peculiar romance that asks you to suspend your disbelief.
What happens at the margins of life has a peculiar significance to what goes on in the middle.
The openness of the platform has allowed a peculiar kind of internet-born racism and misogyny to flourish.
The ones where someone shared a peculiar piece of their personality that wasn't being directed by their dick.
FOR A NATION that regards itself as the cradle of reason, the French display a peculiar fondness for homeopathy.
This is a peculiar trio without the fact of their stardom, and even that makes for a precarious kinship.
In season 6, Bran observed that the stones around a weirwood tree are positioned in a peculiar spiral pattern.
A peculiar aspect of the campaign was Mr Berlusconi's prolonged refusal to disclose his choice for the top job.
The fund is the result of a peculiar alliance forged in 2016 between Mr Son and Muhammad bin Salman.
It may seem like a peculiar fixation, but it's a real problem that very few people are thinking about.
Now the years-long saga between the pair has taken a peculiar new turn: They have the same lawyer.
Sitting on the ear rather than around it, the Sine pair have a peculiar form of discomfort about them.
Kaliningrad, which will host four World Cup matches this month, is a peculiar Russian exclave on the Baltic Sea.
" Over its course, Slimani said, "I came to understand that Morocco was a peculiar country, where strange things happened.
The department added that most callers report a peculiar phenomenon in the sky but do not ask for assistance.
And in the interrogation room scenes that are great specialties of Ms. French's, Rory emerges as a peculiar guy.
I opted instead for a basmati bowl topped with popcorn chicken, a peculiar hybrid of two vastly different cultures.
The Unknown Girl, the new film by the Belgian brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, is a peculiar whodunit.
The poem is worth reading, for sure, but its life onstage has a peculiar charm, a touch of magic.
It's a "peculiar pattern" previously unexplained by science, said Munetaka Sugiyama, a plant physiologist at the University of Tokyo.
In March 2001, six months before 14923/11, a peculiar cartoon named Invader Zim aired in Nickelodeon's Nicktoon block.
A toilet cleaner with a sticker inviting you to "scratch and sniff"—a peculiar instruction on such a product.
Sergio Troncoso is the author of "A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant's Son," forthcoming from Cinco Puntos Press in October.
TORONTO — The British Canadian filmmaker Norman McLaren makes a peculiar protagonist for a full-length work of dance theater.
This is Union Square Cafe, though, a place that from the beginning has inspired attachments of a peculiar intensity.
Nowadays grapes grow in all sorts of places, but how they came to the valley is a peculiar tale.
I always have a peculiar feeling when I meet someone who I know will become part of my life.
A peculiar silence currently surrounds the population of adults with autism, living out their lives in homes and institutions.
But for something that ended 13 years ago, the show continues to have a peculiar relevance to public life.
In 1919, jazz, or "jass," as some still called it, was a peculiar word with musical and sexual connotations.
A Peculiar Paradise: Florida Photographs features Nathan Benn's early 1980s photographs of dreams and debauchery in the Sunshine State.
Out of that commitment has slowly grown a peculiar but potentially important institution known as the Green Climate Fund.
Instead, it offers up a peculiar amalgam that's part commencement speech, part policy analysis, and part gentle GOP ribbing.
On September 210, 2000, on page six of the New York Times, readers encountered a peculiar and amazing story.
Whether you're on the creative or business side of things, it's a peculiar time to work in the fashion industry.
Over the past few quarters, however, a peculiar thing has been happening: Startup founders are choosing more conventional-sounding names.
In reality, Medicare is a peculiar health insurance plan specifically designed for seniors and mottled by decades of political tussle.
A peculiar sight has washed up on the beach at Deception Bay, with hundreds of jellyfish turning the sand blue.
The US Patent and Trademark Office this week published a patent application by Apple that details a peculiar vaporizer technology.
While this should be useful for the eager mobile payments fan, the Apple Watch is still in a peculiar position.
Serenbe is a peculiar community about 20123 minutes south of downtown Atlanta that has sprung up in the last decade.
Produced under license by Avenir Telecom, the Energizer Power Max P600S is a peculiar mix of budget and premium features.
Mr Frahm has a peculiar ability to transport an audience from techno club-nights to delicate piano solos with ease.
Wall Street, and Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton, have taken the Krugman side of the argument, but in a peculiar way.
The Cut recently noticed a peculiar trend from Instagram influencers: an obsession with it couple Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani.
But the bellicose language comes at a peculiar time: Russia's presidential elections are on March 22, just 2000 days away.
If you follow a few beauty bloggers on Instagram, you may have run across a peculiar new trend in selfies.
But the ones made by Black's, to my mind, they've never been beaten, because they have a peculiar glutinous quality.
This is a peculiar move considering Shaheen represents a state with the second highest opioid overdose rate in the country.
That places her in a peculiar and precarious position in South Korea, where patriarchy rules the political and corporate worlds.
In the 19th century, the American physicist Amos Emerson Dolbear noted a peculiar relationship between crickets and the ambient temperature.
On the bottom of the window, under the "Friends Suggestions" box, there was a "Sponsored" box containing a peculiar message.
The result is a set of works that, though created in the present, speak in a peculiar future perfect tense.
In a peculiar twist of fate, he painted his strongest work right after the Biennale and just before he died.
I always smile, because it makes me think of my little self, and also because it's still a peculiar sight.
But because she looks young, people have a peculiar reaction when they find out she's been married for that long.
A peculiar thing about The New York Times's photo archive is how many acres of it are devoted to nothing.
JULIE BOSMAN Lake life in Oklahoma and Texas is a peculiar mixture of scenic country living and adrenaline-fueled debauchery.
This fascinating story follows the researchers' forays into a region with a peculiar hold on the disease: the Cumberland Gap.
A peculiar row of stuffed animals lined the wall below the window: a duck, a badger, a raccoon, a heron.
Now, in a new post-Communist Poland, their fortunes may be changing: They have acquired a peculiar — if fraught — afterlife.
It symbolized a peculiar fondness, verging on devotion, that the skillful forward has developed for the tiny South American country.
It was a space where the past had been replaced by a peculiar, repetitive, and selective representation of the past.
Our reporters noted a "peculiar sensation" in Washington, where pockets of eerie quiet existed as residents and others skipped town.
The big difference between 1965 and now, though, is what was then a peculiar prediction is now an acute predicament.
Ethnic Chinese Muslims like Purnama, who converted in 1994, have a peculiar identity in Indonesia: a minority within a minority.
Aside from building brand awareness abroad, Wang said Xiaomi has a peculiar problem with its affordably-priced phones and products.
"'Five Foot Two' depicts an artist and idol in a peculiar isolation," Glenn Kenny wrote in The New York Times.
The Iraq fiasco had multiple authors, but the distinctive neoconservative contribution is a peculiar brand of generically pro-war thinking.
But that's had a peculiar consequence: The party no longer has a coherent vision for America's place in the world.
Also, Edwards had a peculiar fixation with crime, collecting newspaper clippings about local murders and often contacting police about their investigations.
It laid bare a peculiar, and possibly temporary, quirk of liberals: their aching desire to believe the best of their opponents.
TOMAS JONSSONStockholm Charlemagne (November 303th) wrote that America's electoral college "is a peculiar institution" because Hillary Clinton won the popular vote.
A fainting couch is the center of his attentions, with a peculiar detail — a pillowy intestine that puddles on the floor.
Seats most likely to flip Republican-held seat in Wisconsin This is a peculiar race in which the challenger, former Sen.
In May this year, my colleague James Vincent added a peculiar looking butterfly as a custom emoji on Vox Media's Slack.
A team of Mexican scientists noticed a peculiar behavior in house finches: They were lining their nests with toxic cigarette butts.
And secondly, the Sea Ranch was born out of a peculiar marriage of developer-driven interests and social and environmental awareness.
"Touring is a peculiar thing, it doesn't suit me particularly well," Adele wrote in a note posted on Instagram last week.
This year, she starred in a peculiar and very public morality play when her revolutionary blood-testing technology company virtually collapsed.
The suit also brings to light a peculiar administrative procedure used, according to the suit, only in the state of Tennessee.
The two share a love of Paris and its tradition of exquisite handwork, and a peculiar insider/outsider status within it.
On the top is a peculiar cutout, and you might not know what it's for until you open the camera app.
Trump's messages, which began before dawn, came a day after he returned from a peculiar and controversy-laden trip to Paris.
Illinois (which also holds its primary on Tuesday), Pennsylvania and West Virginia use a peculiar system in which voters elect delegates.
But experiencing beauty in solitude can become a peculiar sort of prison too, like some especially demented form of solitary confinement.
It was a quiet infused with a peculiar sort of violence, the type of silence that villages at peace never know.
This capacity for negative capability accounts for what might seem a peculiar tonal mix in the exhibition of lyricism and absurdity.
For upwardly mobile African-Americans, and to a lesser extent Hispanics, achieving the American dream has had a peculiar side effect.
The Harvard researchers had observed a distinctively small shell, inside of which they had seen a peculiar, cagelike network of cells.
But my favorite of all are the rips: a peculiar species of gooseberry that I have never seen outside of Norway.
King seeks to keep them all safe from a peculiar plague that, among other things, makes women effectively allergic to men.
He speaks in a peculiar way: dramatics are used not for emphasis, but as part and parcel of his everyday colloquialisms.
But as Morrison observed, the skull did have some distinguishing features; it's quite possible that Bellingham had a peculiar look to him.
The angry veterans, part of an estimated 57 million former military personnel in China, pose a peculiar social stability dilemma for Beijing.
"WE HAVE not focused on building our community in China," reads a peculiar announcement posted recently by Airbnb on its official blog.
In a peculiar twist to the incident, Huxiu actually pulled its Chinese version of Zaagman's piece days leading to the ByteDance suit.
They represent a peculiar collection of early internet-based design, created to do harm and experiment with the technologies of the day.
The NRA suit takes a peculiar turn when it claims that the ban "particularly infringes" on the gun rights of young women.
Imagine walking along a shore just minding your own business when you notice a peculiar bottle floating on water in the distance.
In the wake of the earthquakes that rocked New Zealand overnight, videos have begun to emerge of a peculiar but pretty phenomena.
It would, in any event, be a peculiar sort of constitutional rule that applied only in cases where it had no bite.
As the government careened toward a partial closure Friday night, lawmakers in both parties did a peculiar thing: they started heading home.
I have grown used to a peculiar vertigo that it induces: tumbled into empathy with views that are alien to my own.
" As Wilson wrote to his friend Mamaine Koestler in 1950, "it always has a peculiar effect on me—both calming and stimulating.
But because their authors have imagined them so specifically and fully, the best ones have a peculiar, thrilling, impossible-to-fake actualness.
It's already been a peculiar offseason for the Chicago White Sox, and nary a transaction has been filed with the league office.
Her first completed project, "The Afronauts," a playful reimagining of a peculiar episode in the space race, was self-published in 2012.
The briefs were shown on a peculiar cast of scrawny, chicken-chested models, otherwise clad in nothing but scrunched-up athletic socks.
Oddball and amiable, "Lodge 49" looked for meaning in sports-bar restaurants and closing aerospace factories, and it found a peculiar magic.
Their posts are a peculiar mash-up of immaturity and sophistication, laced with profane jokes but also savvy cultural and political references.
The problems did not go away by 2016, so it was a peculiar time to volunteer his services to the Trump campaign.
"George & Lizzie" is a peculiar romance since it charts a relationship in which one party, Lizzie, is merely going through the motions.
Gabbard's decline came in a peculiar fashion: She picked a series of high-profile fights with the Obama administration over foreign policy.
Rita's is a Pennsylvania thing, an Italian ice chain founded by a Philly firefighter in 1984, with a peculiar but delightful dessert.
If Nancy's death is merely a marketing tactic to generate interest in the series, it is a "peculiar choice," Ms. Rehak said.
The movie's contempt for its Japanese characters reaches a peculiar culmination in a scene in which ritual suicide is played for laughs.
It's a peculiar situation that raises hard questions about the nature of over-the-air software updates as they relate to vehicles.
A team of scientists have figured out how to generate an electric current using moisture in the air using a peculiar microbe.
This is a peculiar claim because the dispute centers around a Bombardier airplane in a class where Boeing manufactures no competing products.
For the past few months, economists who track short-term developments have been noting a peculiar divergence between "soft" and "hard" data.
These puzzles are a peculiar species — they appear loopy and eccentric, but the rules behind the cluing are quite elegant and specific.
One morning in July, Kate Boicourt was frying plantains in her apartment in Ditmas Park when a peculiar sound caught her ear.
Blued is in a peculiar position: It might be the biggest app of its kind, yet it is also the most precarious.
" In our conversation, Hillary Clinton spoke of the limits of an "educationalist" mind-set, which she called a "peculiar form of élitism.
The granite- and glass-clad building has a peculiar triangular shape, with two legs directed to the harbor to maximize water views.
The trees will be planted in the shape of a battery, creating a peculiar marriage of the natural and man-made worlds.
Notorious electronic music prankster Aphex Twin makes playfully critical commentary on the United States presidential election in a peculiar new video released today.
On November 14, 1847, the front page of Le Populaire, a communist weekly printed in Paris, bore a peculiar headline: c'est au texas!
Whenever you go, the music is a peculiar distraction, an unimaginative collection of old songs by the same few artists, over and over.
Mr Johnson is likely to embrace a peculiar mixture of liberal causes (such as environmentalism) and populist ones (such as stiffer prison sentences).
The Mate 28 is the larger device, featuring a 220-inch, 24 x 63 LCD display with a peculiar 26:2849 aspect ratio.
It is a peculiar, and like exceedingly common, "other" state that water molecules are forced to exist in in conditions of extreme confinement.
According to researchers Shmuel Bialy and Abraham "Avi" Loeb, the asteroid accelerates in a peculiar manner, similar to the acceleration of a comet.
Grief and desire have a peculiar way of dovetailing, and I was overcome with a desire to kiss her as we continued talking.
It also illustrated a peculiar incoherence: the world's hottest tech company and the world's hottest tech trend are not, at present, in alignment.
The darkness gives way to the largely C.G.I.-generated landscape of "Egypt, 3,600 B.C." Inside a pyramid, a peculiar ritual is taking place.
The tweet caught the attention of Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who ended up in a peculiar back-and-forth with the museum's account.
The room was dark but the holiday lights were still on outside, casting a peculiar glow through the windows, an eerie, alien brightness.
"Choose Love" in central London is a peculiar kind of pop-up store where you purchase stuff but don't actually bring anything home.
Instead Penn used a peculiar hook above his opponent's knee, achieving a unique pigeon stretch position while sat on his opponent's trapped leg.
This may sound like a peculiar style of helicopter parenting, but Lehtonen was not worried about his children — he was worried about himself.
Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet's The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach, entirely played by professional musicians, is a peculiar and striking film.
But a peculiar confluence of history, legal precedent and regulatory defiance has given California unique authority to write its own air pollution rules.
But this wasn't the first time the Trump administration made a peculiar foreign policy move that seems associated with Trump family business interests.
All too often, a peculiar paralysis keeps people from tossing a newspaper or a bagel wrapper into a trash bin mere feet away.
Every dog has its day Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg took the internet by storm after greeting a dog in a peculiar manner.
Apple has finally clarified a peculiar and unsettling privacy issue with its newer iPhone 33 and iPhone 11 Pro models regarding location tracking.
Soto entered a peculiar mind-set that can settle over a combatant in the seconds before battle, a feeling of absolute, intoxicating clarity.
Dom Sylvester Houédard, friends with the beatniks, littered his texts with references to god and prayer, and had a peculiar sense of humor.
The "Here Together" ad strikes a peculiar, passive tone; there's a general sense of disappointment and empathy, but little in the way of contrition.
Then there is the European Economic Area (EEA) which is a peculiar type of free trade agreement, operated by just Norway, Iceland and Lichtenstein.
Immediately upon entering the space, you are greeted by a sculptural being, a peculiar deity hybridizing tropes of African divinity and Southern Baptist Christianity.
He's on his way back to his wife's funeral when he meets a peculiar old grifter on a plane, who offers him a job.
The composition offers something of a peculiar nod to the rectilinear discipline of Josef Albers' signature painting series, "Homage to the Square" (1950-1976).
But now there is a peculiar dynamic, where pay can fall even when the economy is strong, said Alan Johnson, who runs the consultancy.
That would be a peculiar position for a purportedly pro-business group to take, since EITE is all about protecting in-state business competitiveness.
A Missouri mother was in for a surprise when she picked up her 2-year-old daughter's birthday cake and found a peculiar typo.
Engineers at the University of Michigan are onto something rather more brainlike, however, with help from a peculiar electrical component known as a memristor.
Despite this, a peculiar group of academics have made great strides in recent years when it comes to understanding human-environment interactions: business researchers.
In the wake of minutely reported and perspective-shifting books like "The New Jim Crow" and "Ghettoside," this is a peculiar omission at best.
Notre Dame 61, Wisconsin 56 | East Regional PHILADELPHIA — A peculiar smell greeted the Notre Dame basketball team Thursday when it got off its bus.
In it, he attempts to document a peculiar approach to the world: the conviction that someone sinister is calling the shots, somewhere far away.
The city where I grew up, Culiacán, is home to three generations of drug lords — and a peculiar outdoor garden filled with contemporary art.
But by adolescence Buber had permanently broken with Orthodoxy, though he remained in a peculiar sense, to which I shall return, a religious Jew.
While Madonna was shown as the happy ringleader of a media circus, "Five Foot Two" depicts an artist and idol in a peculiar isolation.
Indeed, bows, trains, veils and capes — the accessories most associated with the ghosts of femininity long ago — were a peculiar leitmotif of the season.
" Inam Ghani, the additional inspector general of the Punjab police, said that Kasur is a peculiar case "because there have been serial pedophile murders.
Square Feet For decades, Westchester County's cities seemed stuck in a peculiar limbo, too sleepy to be New York, too gritty to be suburban.
Classical Music Louis Langrée kicks off this year's festivities at Lincoln Center with a peculiar program, to be performed on Tuesday and Wednesday nights.
Theirs can come across as stilted and willed, less recognizable as the workings of memory than as the preoccupations of a peculiar social class.
Desperate for a win, he takes up a delivery job in upstate New York where he meets a peculiar hipster named Anya (Chelsea Lopez).
The 725 pages of emails from Hillary Clinton's private server released Monday by Judicial Watch include a peculiar request from U2 front man Bono.
They noticed that large-scale deployment had a peculiar effect on the electricity "load curve," the shape that electricity demand takes throughout the day.
As you play, you sense fake news creators don't just work for the cash, but in a peculiar way, they might enjoy the challenge, too.
The Republican National Committee's renewed support for Roy Moore comes with a peculiar caveat: No one at the RNC is actually defending the decision publicly.
Click here to view original GIFThe internet is fascinated with a peculiar clip of a girl riding her hoverboard around a pool on Christmas Day.
Neuroscientists from the University of Colorado have found a peculiar and paradoxical effect in rats subject to morphine treatment: They tend to experience pain longer.
As they write in the Astronomical Journal, they have analysed the orbits of Kuiper-Belt objects and found six that behave in a peculiar way.
It's a peculiar thing to see one of the most upsetting chapters in America through the lens of a prepubescent white boy and his friends.
The unassuming plug-in promised a peculiar sort of magic, souping up the sound quality of existing audio hardware with the press of a button.
Mr. Pence, the former talk-radio host, was the smoother, more polished presence — but often had a peculiar strategy regarding his running mate: Donald Who?
A peculiar standoff ensued when Pierre-Paul declined to speak with Giants coaches, owners, doctors and team executives about the extent of his hand injuries.
MERS, H19363N1, swine flu, chikungunya, Zika: Another virus with a peculiar name always seems to be right around the corner, threatening to become a pandemic.
Opinion Columnist A peculiar chapter in the 2200 presidential race ended Monday, when Bernie Sanders, after months of foot-dragging, finally released his tax returns.
The government is a peculiar coalition of the populist left and populist right, one that is deeply euroskeptic, friendly to Russia and confrontational with Brussels.
That combination of words," Mr. Hale writes, "like so many in the lexicon of the death penalty, twists the English language into a peculiar shape.
But the financing of wars has become a peculiar political issue nowadays, notes Kreps, a former Air Force officer who teaches government at Cornell University.
More generally, she seems in these "Memoirs" to be making herself a rare beast, a peculiar animal whose strangeness is the subject of the drama.
A peculiar confluence of history, legal precedent and defiance has set the stage for a regulatory mutiny in California that would reverberate throughout the country.
We're covering the looming leadership shift in Britain, the first-ever Sikh prime minister candidate in Canada and a peculiar childhood ritual in the Netherlands.
A final quibble: It strains credibility that Marvin Gardens, a peculiar and good-size animal unafraid of humans, is undiscovered until Obe happens on him.
Deirdre O'Connell has a peculiar challenge performing the recollections of Lucas Hnath's mother in his play "Dana H." Give credit to earbuds and Epsom salts.
I write "in league with" because even in this free interlude, it was clear that KRZ had a peculiar understanding of player agency and control.
There is a peculiar kind of homesickness that is very specific to people who have such a strong attachment to a place they call home.
It landed him a 21-month stint in federal prison and a peculiar flavor of infamy in the art world upon his release in 2006.
There's a reason it took over 18 years for the West Memphis Three to be released from prison — and under a peculiar plea deal, too.
Policy makers are drawing a peculiar distinction between monetary policy that is designed to address domestic needs and that which is intended for exchange rate intervention.
In terms of design, they're also fairly unisex, though V-Moda's styling is a peculiar sort of quietly shouty, featuring undisguised screws and uncovered metal yokes.
In the early 1900s, an outspoken and eccentric millionaire named Abbot Kinney had a peculiar vision for a stretch of shoreline in western Los Angeles County.
There is a peculiar pattern that I have noticed among elites in the United States outside Silicon Valley, which is the almost boastful ignorance of technology.
The medics were at a gas station in the city of Norwalk when they discovered a peculiar plastic bag in an adjacent field, Norwalk Police Capt.
So why is Trump, the man who possesses a peculiar political instinct, betting his re-election on dividing Americans and turning them against their better instincts?
FLORIDA, whose voters head to the polls today in the presidential primary, has in recent years become the butt of a peculiar internet joke, or meme.
Zuckerman portrays Mercer as "a peculiar but largely benign figure within the company" who liked to zing his liberal colleagues, but mostly kept his own counsel.
And in a peculiar example of life imitating art, real plants are growing out of a decorative band of terra-cotta leaves on the structure's cornice.
As luck would have it, Monique's diagnosis coincided with the arrival of a peculiar circular from William Dement, a sleep specialist at Stanford University in California.
Their security measures are built in, biologically, thanks to a peculiar communication strategy based on sending information from shrimp to shrimp through the polarization of light.
Dallas had a commitment from DeAndre Jordan last summer, in what seemed like a huge move for the Mavs before it turned into a peculiar farce.
And like a line run twice through Google Translate, it's distinguished by a peculiar relation to the original object of study, one of similarity and dissociation.
It's a peculiar gift: to spend 12 minutes in the grainy glow of another era, watching an unheralded moment as it recedes further into the past.
The involvement of the United States attorney's office is a peculiar twist, because federal prosecutors do not usually get involved in civil trials between two companies.
" The technical anticlimax seemed a fitting end to a peculiar saga that began in November when Mr. Trump floated the bestowing of a "FAKE NEWS TROPHY.
All power to Branagh and Elton, then, as they devise a peculiar plot about Judith and her lost brother, even supplying a whiff of spicy whodunnit.
It's a peculiar decision, given that Reynolds says Google's goal for the Pixel camera is to help people capture the most accurate memory of a day.
The self-consciousness in Walcott's poetry, still, is a peculiar disturbance in the last half of the 20th century and in the beginning of our century.
Photo: Spencer Platt (Getty Images)Researchers say they've stumbled upon a peculiar cause of liver disease: a kind of bacteria that produces alcohol inside our gut.
To the extent that Biden said anything fresh, it came from a peculiar old-timey aside in response to a question about the legacy of slavery.
The most obvious problem for Bendtner over the last few seasons has been that, despite his billing as a striker, he's got a peculiar aversion to scoring.
As the world economy grows ever more prosperous and sophisticated, the problem of extreme poverty looks less like a tragic inevitability and more like a peculiar anachronism.
She later said she was also trying to "stay out of politics" — a peculiar statement that made no sense given her actual position in the White House.
It is a peculiar fact that in countries that are becoming more accepting of different sexual identities, the freedom to be accepted as transgender is lagging behind.
Look, Trace was completely correct, this individual essentially had a number of indicators that were observable; he was behaving in a peculiar matter that was not typical.
While surveying whales and dolphins off the Hawaiian Islands, scientists spotted a creature they've never seen before: a peculiar hybrid between a dolphin and a small whale.
Kirkpatrick's bust takes the movie's poster and recreates it as a peculiar 3D artwork, taking a savage journey into the heart of the cult film's untethered psychedelia.
When it ended up a broad, low-stakes show about a peculiar group of old people, it was easy to understand the mild critical disappointment that followed.
That's a peculiar defense that rings as hollow as a bank robber pleading his innocence because the teller didn't happen to have any money in the till.
Kirkpatrick's bust takes the movie's poster and recreates it as a peculiar 3D artwork, taking a savage journey into the heart of the cult film's untethered psychedelia.
Last week, a 60-year-old woman in Padua, Italy, waddled into a fire station to report a peculiar emergency: She was trapped in her chastity belt.
The real issue is not "liberty" or our right to govern ourselves but a peculiar twenty-first-century concern to not cede government to the private sector.
If so, tariffs that force the Navy to make do is a peculiar way to make America great, especially when the tariffs are predicated on national security.
Ted Cruz (Texas) It was a peculiar night for Cruz: He was characteristically fluent and authoritative in setting out his conservative stall for most of the debate.
The bout was a peculiar one because Komiyama's continuous running out to Takeru's left made it more difficult for Takeru to front kick him onto the ropes.
A peculiar air of mystery hangs over this Quebecois zombie survival film, making it all the more compelling than the seemingly endless melodrama of The Walking Dead.
On Money Down the street from my home in Bangkok, next to a tailor and a nail salon, sits a peculiar outpost of the North Korean state.
Liv (Rose McIver) has a peculiar vision while investigating the killing of a Seattle Seahawks fan, and Major (Robert Buckley) is tasked with mentoring young, homeless zombies.
But it also consigned Jones's effort to a peculiar niche in Super Bowl lore, one where spectacular moments are eclipsed and erased by the greatness of others.
Presented with a peculiar and tight area, the artists adapted to it in clever and unexpected ways, using a diverse array of mediums to circumvent physical limitations.
And nearby, an abandoned brick warehouse has been transformed into an entertainment row, with food-and-drink establishments alongside a peculiar cryptozoology museum and a circus school.
MELBOURNE, Australia — His ranking staggered after an injury-plagued year, Roger Federer found himself in a peculiar position Friday as the Australian Open draw ceremony got underway.
That vast swell of nations, languages, landscapes and histories has always had a peculiar impact on foreigners, but Gettleman seems to have been hit harder than most.
As if to reinforce the impossibility of such synergies, last fall the Trump administration released a peculiar report arguing that "socialism" had negatively affected Nordic living standards.
It's a peculiar kind of dissonance: Tracks like "Tom Tom" and "House of Glass" pit tribal rhythms and chillwave synths against dirty reverb and vertigo-inducing feedback.
But it's Kennedy's distinctive voice — a peculiar drawl that defies simple linguistic classification — that presents the greatest challenge for any actress who might attempt to imitate her.
Using bright colors, subtle shading, and vivid detail, Brian Rideout's oil paintings occupy a peculiar space between intimacy and distance, pulling from architecture, interiors, and still life.
"Salt Lake City is a peculiar city," said Stan Penfold, who in 2010 became the first openly gay councilman of the city, reported the The Salt Lake Tribune.
Near the gas cloud they spotted a peculiar spot, an object about one five-hundredth the brightness of Sag A*, that was smaller than the telescope could resolve.
Beyond that, stories from his fans, collaborators and friends piece together a more intimate mosaic of a peculiar, perplexing man person, if never fully understood, was fully loved.
Using a peculiar metaphor, Stankey said HBO needed to undergo "childbirth" to transform into a network with a much broader offering of entertainment to better compete with Netflix.
A routine traffic stop resulted in a peculiar lesson on driving rules when an undertaker was found transporting a deceased person in the HOV lane in Las Vegas.
Some viewers might notice from a few videos that there is a peculiar icon on the Galaxy S8 battery that depicts a dog with a bar across it.
In the meantime, one observer noted a peculiar section of the company's Terms and Conditions which indicates that users may not link to any part of the Unroll.
His composition, "Please, Don't Kill My Child," perhaps the album's most haunting track, is a plea against a peculiar crime in Malawi: the jealousy-fueled killing of children.
Gabbard's fall from grace in the Democratic Party came in a peculiar fashion: She picked a series of high-profile fights with the Obama administration over foreign policy.
That is a peculiar line of argument for a government agency in a secular democracy to use, and it is hardly surprising that the ECHR struck it down.
The country has a peculiar ability to produce multiple artists that at once seem so similar, paying heed to Mali's hallmark repetitive beat, and yet so obviously distinct.
A recorded message from Erdogan was broadcast on phones throughout Turkey Saturday, a peculiar way of marking the anniversary of a failed military coup on July 15, 2016.
In a peculiar feature of the design by late Italian engineer Riccardo Morandi, the rods were encased in concrete, making their deterioration detectable only by sophisticated scanning equipment.
Pink's druggy inversion of AOR, 80s soft pop, and commercial jingles reflected a fondness for the era's schlocky musical artifacts, revealing a peculiar beauty in their synthetic gaudiness.
MISS PEREGRINE'S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN Tim Burton turns his dark talents to a fantasy adventure involving time travel, invisible monsters and, yes, a peculiar child or two.
A peculiar two-on-two grappling match, which looked like laboured sparring, pitting Silva against old opponent Kazushi Sakuraba and Hideo Tokoro while partnering up with Kiyoshi Tamura.
Whitlow grass's mass flowering gives the impression of frost over a swath of low growing plants, or sometimes as a peculiar thin layer of fog at ground level.
The heady scent of smoke evokes images of trees, of wood burning in a cold climate—a peculiar odor you don't come across much in the Catalan capital.
A man with a peculiar take on happily ever after, the Danish author Hans Christian Andersen wrote tales that have inspired operas, ballets, a couple of Disney movies.
"Baby" is a peculiar word choice for an object that measures nearly five feet long, five feet across at its widest, and stands over three feet tall. 2.
In this new musical from the "Next to Normal" composer Tom Kitt, with a book by John Logan, a widow and her teenage son befriend a peculiar neighbor.
Azimi: Donald Trump actually makes a cameo in an early Reza play called "Father Was a Peculiar Man," which took place over four blocks of the Meatpacking District.
" According to Ms. Solari, Ms. Winner also plugged a peculiar query into an internet search engine last year: "Do top secret computers detect when flash drives are inserted?
Knott's poems claim a peculiar kind of privacy, as though he confiscated his lines from public view in order to mete them out on his own stubborn terms.
The gadget comes with a peculiar monolithic design, almost resembling a PC tower, while its new wireless controller looks like something Xbox fans will be more familiar with.
Part of the joy in having a peculiar device in a novel — such as the alethiometer in Philip Pullman's "Golden Compass" — is learning what it is capable of.
There is a peculiar kind of alchemy that happens at the point where massive amounts of money and highly regarded artists converge: everything in the vicinity becomes meaningless.
Skateboarding at the professional level is a peculiar enterprise, one without official rules and few contests that any skaters really care about — something that can happen anytime, anywhere.
Besides tending to all the peculiar children, Miss Peregrine is an "ymbryne," a Peculiar herself, with the ability to create time loops (you'll see) and become a bird.
In a new international trailer for the upcoming Marvel film, which hits theaters this November, Doctor Strange appears to give the Norse god of thunder a peculiar warning.
This was a peculiar decision because his low line side kick into the lead leg, paired with a nice hook kick, worked well against Whittaker in the first bout.
On Wednesday, the soccer club, based in England, found a peculiar contraption consisting of a styrofoam box, a parachute, a GoPro camera and of course the mysterious frozen burger.
The Piano Forte X is a pair of gold-plated, chrome copper earphones with a large cone protruding from one end and a peculiar, enlarged nozzle on the other.
St. Louis Blues coach Ken Hitchcock is hoping to find a safe haven away from the Gateway City, a peculiar stance considering his team's considerable struggles on the road.
During the hearing in Palermo, Sicily, the prosecutor described Mifsud as a "peculiar subject," and said that all attempts to reach and notify the Maltese professor had been unsuccessful.
The book curiously places Woodman's own black-and-white photography and handwritten annotations inside of an Italian geometry exercise textbook, a peculiar fusion of elementary logic and aesthetic mystery.
A new clip from the film shows Emma Watson in full Belle glory, a "peculiar" girl in a simple town where no one can help but sing about it.
Alexis Devaney was unaware of the large tumor growing in her body until a friend of the family pointed out a peculiar lump in her back during a visit.
It is a peculiar American phenomenon, that there is almost a reflexive demand to roll back civil liberties in the wake of tragedy, be it gun violence or otherwise.
Nairobi is in a peculiar position because it has garnered a positive reputation among LGBTQ refugees in the region that wish to escape violence and persecution in their communities.
Underneath the train tracks between Motomachi and Kobe stations stretches a peculiar shopping arcade where you can unearth great vintage vinyl and the missing controller to your childhood Nintendo.
As the retail world continues to be rocked by changing consumer habits, Walmart's massive bet on virtual reality may seem like a peculiar part of the company's technology portfolio.
He's stuck in a peculiar place where he knows that he's suffering from PTSD but the knowledge of that doesn't make it easier to separate the paranoia from reality.
On the 16th floor of the New York Times headquarters in Manhattan, you will find a peculiar room, its walls and ceiling lined with black foam egg-crate insulation.
Touched with supernatural elements (like the sharp-taloned creature called the Thing in the Wardrobe, impatiently lying in wait), this is a poetic drama with a peculiar, tricky shape.
In fact, the best and worst you can say of the Gelbs' book — stolid, overlong, but wielding a peculiar power — is that they have written about O'Neill O'Neill-ishly.
Paid family leave in NDAA The National Defense Authorization Act, a sprawling annual defense policy bill, included a peculiar trade-off that delivered a long-sought victory for Democrats.
And so the prologue, occurring ten years earlier, shows Reagan in defeat at the Republican Convention of 19723, unexpectedly addressing its delegates with a peculiar meditation on nuclear apocalypse.
A peculiar aspect of the Trump economy is that while overall growth has been solid, the areas of weakness have come precisely in those things Trump tried to stimulate.
Aunt Beru sets the table with cups filled with a peculiar periwinkle liquid that comes from from Banthas, hairy yak-like creatures that reside on Luke's home planet Tatooine.
On particularly troubled blocks, the city converted the asphalt surface into a gravelly dirt, a peculiar sight in middle- and upper-class neighborhoods in the center of a city.
In America, meanwhile, the curve is inverted—interest rates on ten-year bonds are lower than on three-month bills—a peculiar situation that is a harbinger of recession.
In A Peculiar Paradise: Florida Photographs, Benn's new monograph from powerHouse Books, he recalls: Cocaine cowboys were glamorized on television in Miami Vice and at the cinema in Scarface.
The issues and tensions in the over 100 images, whether ecological or political, are often still present, making A Peculiar Paradise a timely return to this decades-old work.
Backfire Effect Cognitive simplicity and dissonance leads to a peculiar phenomena in which people seem to double down on their beliefs in the teeth of overwhelming evidence against them.
Image: PNASAn international team of researchers has identified a peculiar population of cyanobacteria living within rocks deep below Earth's surface—a surprising discovery given that cyanobacteria require sunlight to survive.
Later that day, Woo appeared to backtrack vaguely, sending a peculiar email to the Milwaukee TV station WTMJ suggesting that it was hard to know what to call the project.
The implication is clear: America's own security interests are more entwined than ever with those of the region, making it a peculiar time to consider scaling back its military presence.
Grow Home (it's not a typo) is a peculiar-of-physics semi-platformer in which you guide a robot up a beanstalk (it's better than I just made it sound).
IN 1533 A noblewoman in Calais presented a visiting grandee with a peculiar gift: her personal toothpick, which, she was eager to point out, she had used for seven years.
Early in 1881, before entering the White House, James Garfield recorded a peculiar dream about the Vice-President-elect, who would end up succeeding him before the summer was over.
The idea that we should keep politics out of government is a peculiar demand, but it's also an elitist one: It suggests that democracy is best left to the experts.
A joint investigation by ProPublica and The Kansas City Star found that Kobach, Kansas' secretary of state and a Republican candidate for governor, has a peculiar pattern of courtroom defeats.
Kaufman, of course, was a comic like few others, featuring an act that possessed a peculiar current of performance art, designed as much to confuse and perplex as elicit laughs.
It also has a peculiar provenance: in the late seventies, just before Simons started Renaissance, a friend of his parents put a hundred thousand dollars into a trust for him.
The Olsens, in their quiet dominance of a peculiar corner of popular culture, will always be "the Olsens" first, their corporate Instagram account read to verify and not to understand.
The pianos have proved to be very popular, and the music, blending with the sounds of shouting passengers, screeching trains and rolling suitcases, can give French stations a peculiar soundscape.
Of course, because some of the most profound achievements of the book are deflections or metaphors or reflections of the human condition, or a peculiar aspect of an extreme experience.
Technically, this term describes a peculiar purgatory where movies and video games land when they haven't been canceled but enthusiasm for their completion seems insufficient to actually do the work.
The turning point of Sunday's game was a peculiar ricochet touchdown catch by Allen that suddenly drew the Chargers within a touchdown and a 2-point conversion of the Steelers.
The comparatively relaxed nature of their overall attack makes for a peculiar and satisfying twist on those influences, particularly on the album's opening track, "Big Bebek," written by Mr. Ruder.
The paintings depict a peculiar culture 19th-century culture isolated on the Netherlands island of Marken where all the natives, regardless of social standing, once wore the same traditional costumes.
But until last week, Malawi's couple of thousand Rastas were still awaiting liberation from a peculiar legacy of it: a ban on dreadlocks in Malawi's British-modeled state school system.
Feeling reassured by the encouragement of the network's biggest figure, Farrow leaves Lauer's office, and notices a peculiar thing: a button under the desk that closes the door behind him.
At the core of the Islamic State's global success — and vulnerability — is a peculiar blend of theological boldness and criminal opportunism, something Al Qaeda, its predecessor and rival, never achieved.
WASHINGTON — During commercial breaks in "Fox & Friends" and "Saturday Night Live" this month, a peculiar advertisement has flashed across television screens in New York, Washington and West Palm Beach, Fla.
In a peculiar interior design experiment, Nissan covered the car seats and steering wheel on a sporty Nissan Juke vehicle with a material that changes color when it absorbs sweat.
The Roman furthest left in "Christ and the Adulteress" (21582–21622) is too self-involved to witness Jesus sparing a woman's life (although Jesus himself has a peculiar sight line).
But he doesn't appear heavily invested in all the niceties of elite politics, where a peculiar notion of "civility" is often used to oppose efforts to go after Republican politicians themselves.
It was only in 1964 that a group led by James Cronin and Valentine Fitch discovered a peculiar, tiny effect in the decays of K mesons that violates T invariance. III.
Talking Points Memo described the novel this way: The account–although it is fiction– is a peculiar amalgamation of a make-believe family encountering a series of very real conservative nightmares.
Even as party leaders focus on Senator Marco Rubio of Florida as the likeliest candidate to stop Mr. Trump, Mr. Kasich is clinging to his peculiar place in a peculiar race.
Like Lubitsch, Iosseliani works under a peculiar idea of civilization, refusing to distinguish between aristocrats, thieves, and tramps so long as they maintain a certain endearing — if faintly ridiculous — noblesse oblige.
The sub-two-hour marathon has been a peculiar obsession of mine; I spent three years reporting and writing a book called Two Hours: The Quest To Run The Impossible Marathon.
Suddenly, a piece of dramatic music came over the PA. From the far side of the restaurant there emerged a peculiar sight, a yellow dot growing rapidly in size and speed.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Georges Perec's notorious 1969 novel La Disparition, translated into English by Gilbert Adair as A Void (1995), addresses traumatic violence in a peculiar, indirect fashion.
It is a peculiar welcome to one of England's largest and most prestigious stately homes, the only secular and non-royal building in the country to be known as a 'palace.
The Kims nominally pay fealty to communist ideology, but they combine it with a peculiar deity myth in which the Kim family is the guardian of the nation and its people.
In 2011, a peculiar dating site targeted only to "beautiful men and women"—whatever that means—claimed that a computer virus let 30,000 "ugly people" sign up and "invade" the service.
President Donald Trump attacked China and Russia for changes in their currency in a tweet Monday, in a peculiar attack that came despite the Treasury Department naming neither as currency manipulators.
It is the flagship event of the European Patent Office (EPO), a quango that employs 7,000 people and has been embroiled in a peculiar amount of publicity and controversy of late.
The cause is a peculiar shortage of the carbon dioxide used to add gas to all manner of fizzy drinks, which means manufacturers are cutting production and retailers are being rationed.
For instance: There's a peculiar group of tiny animals known as rotifers, once studied only by invertebrate zoologists but now notable throughout molecular biology for their "massive" uploads of alien genes.
"State of Siege," which flopped at its Paris debut, can be read as a peculiar companion piece to Camus's 1947 novel "The Plague," about a pandemic that overtakes an Algerian town.
" In his interview with the Atlantic, Spencer, an avowed atheist, surprised Wood with a peculiar defense of Christianity: that the religion is false but it "bound together the civilizations of Europe.
But first it drops us off with another set of characters, in a vignette about a peculiar crime — not exactly comedy, not exactly crime drama, but a kind of absurdist hybrid.
Like much of Lagos, it is highly multicultural; conversations on the floating slum are usually in a language which is a peculiar medley of Yoruba, French, and Egun, a local dialect.
Still, the decision to add more steps to the standards-writing process is a peculiar one for an administration that has sought to cut red tape elsewhere in the federal bureaucracy.
Outrage over gerrymandering and demands for electoral reform crop up after every election cycle from pundits and journalists whenever they see strangely drawn legislative district boundaries or a peculiar election result.
Shivering in front of the movie monitors, Ms. Meyer thought of a female agent — part Jason Bourne, part Bill Nye the Science Guy — who has a peculiar talent for torturing people.
And in the people who depend on the platform to pay their bills, it inspires a peculiar mixture of paranoia, desire, gratefulness and disdain that shows up clearly in their work.
"S and Star," a peculiar wall-mounted work from 1941, comprises an irregular serpentine curve that writhes and flounces next to a droopy four-pointed star that performs unsteady flip-flops.
Where driving is concerned, there seems to be a peculiar difficulty in unifying different points of view: The personal reality of the driver is unassailable, even by his own conscious mind.
The progressive insurgency sweeping the nation is cresting in Rhode Island as well — a state with a peculiar brand of politics and a history of strong lefty showings in Democratic primaries.
They took advantage of a peculiar law from the 1960s, according to which municipalities with at most 7,500 people are allowed just one pharmacy (supposedly to keep the quality of services high).
Such patterns, Rothenberg noted, create a peculiar inversion where literal growth occurs in areas of the map with conflict or weak economic infrastructures, while the regions representing the developed world remain barren.
So much so that Stockholm syndrome, a peculiar phenomenon in which hostages develop positive feelings toward their captors, was named after a hostage situation that took place in Stockholm in the 1970s.
Now, Wall Street is approaching a "peculiar junction" ahead of meeting next week, at which the central bank's leadership is widely expected to raise interest rates by a quarter-point, Cramer said.
He got the job, but not like you might think In a peculiar twist of fate, Singh recently participated in Georgia Tech's annual HackGT hackathon event, in which NCR was a sponsor.
There's quite a peculiar situation underway in Europe, where Ireland doesn't want to collect a mighty €13 billion ($13.6 billion) tax bill from Apple, and Apple certainly doesn't want to pay it.
Kessinger told investigators that during the FaceTime call after the killings, she noticed a peculiar detail: Watts was lying in bed on a mattress that did not have any sheets on it.
Swiss watchmaker Hautlence has just revealed a peculiar piece called the Playground Labyrinth featuring a tiny 18k gold ball that can be navigated around a complicated maze just by moving your wrist.
There, for several hours a day, starting at sunrise, they fan their tail-feathers into a speckled halo and emit a peculiar warbling sound by dilating air-sacks in their feathery breasts.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman described the Senate bill, which must be approved by the House of Representatives and signed by President Donald Trump before it becomes law, as "a peculiar move".
It is also, in a peculiar way, a Disney movie: a story about a plucky orphan on a journey to discover her past, who must overcome a menacing evil along the way.
What makes the brown marmorated stinkbug unique, though, is not just its tendency to congregate in extremely large numbers but the fact that it boasts a peculiar and unwelcome kind of versatility.
The three men were scouring a thicket on the edge of a soybean field, hoping to stumble across the buck's carcass, when Eric noticed a peculiar stonelike object lying on the ground.
Help Desk A peculiar thing about humans is that we're persistently disturbed by reminders that we are, in fact, mammals who sweat, shed, bleed and expel foul matter on a daily basis.
This is a pretty amazing rise, but in the reference frame of the rest of the industry it could also signal a peculiar shift in mentality for how gaming companies are valued.
Love hotels have occupied a peculiar space in the broader market, offering privacy for as little as a few hours at minimal cost for, for instance, young couples living with their parents.
Shepard is a peculiar filmmaker, whose jazzy 2005 feature "The Matador" might have been a breakthrough had it found the audience it deserved, and who has mostly floundered in subsequent film efforts.
While Jedlicka is optimistic about relations between his country and the Trump administration, the nascent relationship faces a peculiar and significant hurdle: Neither the US nor any other country recognizes Liberland's existence.
I was a peculiar black kid trying to find a sense of stature in what was often a less than friendly environment, and those images provided me with a sense of satisfaction.
Baseball is a peculiar sport, filled with dozens of climactic anticlimaxes, and wide pockets of time for digressions into movies or politics or, in Keith's case, deeply felt opinions about uniform design.
In a peculiar twist of history, the Baltimore Museum of Art is home to what is widely believed to be the world's largest and most comprehensive collection of work by Henri Matisse.
It's a peculiar, to say the least, specificity of detail, but its off-kilter dance with signification opens up the mind to questions that a more straightforward depiction of human interaction would preclude.
The researchers detected a peculiar hot spot on the surface at 41 degrees east from the substellar point (the point at which the sun is directly overhead), leading to two very different explanations.
The sharp-eyed shoppers over at Cosmopolitan UK stumbled upon a peculiar offering within the Swedish retailer's textile section: a "lounging blanket," fashioned out of its quilted fabrics into a zip-up jacket.
When emotional intelligence (EQ) first appeared to the masses, it served as the missing link in a peculiar finding: people with average IQs outperform those with the highest IQs 70% of the time.
His mother had a friend in Harlem, and sometimes brought Lee, her only child, along to visit; there, he learned all he could about hip-hop, which still seemed like a peculiar subculture.
When emotional intelligence first appeared to the masses, it served as the missing link in a peculiar finding: people with average IQs outperform those with the highest IQs 70 percent of the time.
Early in the summer of 1991, the conservation biologist Jack Putz received a peculiar call from the owner of a vacation home out in Yankeetown, a village on the Gulf Coast of Florida.
Still, Mr. Buhari ascended to the presidency with a rare advantage — not only did he have the good will of a majority of Nigerians, he elicited a peculiar mix of fear and respect.
With Starhopper's work now done, though, workers will soon cannibalize it for parts and turn it into a peculiar-looking test stand for Raptor engines that will power SpaceX's rockets of the future.
He first wrote about it in 1906, describing the case of a woman named "Auguste D." Alzheimer called it "a peculiar disease," marked by significant memory loss, severe paranoia and other psychological changes.
Like a Fading Shadow is a peculiar novel that comes that comes freighted with a scaffolding of meta-commentary, authorial second-guessing, and boozy, romantic homilies to youthful excess and the artistic life.
The event is a peculiar mash-up of one of the Internet's leading destinations for gamers and a cultural icon who introduced American television audiences to beef Wellington, crêpes suzette and other dishes.
Granted, it's so far a very slow ripping, but, thanks to a peculiar property often referred to as dark energy, the universe is not just expanding, but it is accelerating in its expansion.
On another attempt, the force of his landing sheared a wheel off its axle, leaving the bearings on either side somehow still in place—a peculiar display of the power of the drop.
Like the killer himself, who escapes Kreizler during a peculiar pursuit through an abandoned building after taunting him with a grisly trophy, the answer as to whether it will remains elusive for now.
A local 94-year-old named Thomas Faunce staged a peculiar protest: He was put in a chair, hoisted up by a team of men and carried down to the rock from town.
But the persistence of a macho archetype also seems to point to a peculiar conservative reading of an avowedly anti-establishment time — and a resistance to dissent or difference within the movements themselves.
A peculiar and fragile normalcy has returned to the mining and steel region of eastern Ukraine after four years of fighting that has taken roughly 10,300 lives and displaced about 1.5 million people.
This was possible because of a peculiar electoral system set up after 1989 in which all citizens had two votes, one for a one-representative district and another for a multi-member district.
It's a testament to the director's idiosyncratic artistic vision, and a peculiar ode to the Canadian city, which Mr. Maddin has lived in his entire life, despite his dream of one day leaving.
This interstellar apparition announced itself in August, when Gennady Borisov, a Crimean astronomer and veteran comet hunter, noticed a furry dot of light cruising through the stars of Cancer on a peculiar path.
On the trail, where the most engaged voters often sound and behave like pundits, she has drawn skepticism from a peculiar class of Democrat: the progressive who fears others are not so progressive.
Directed by the Austrian filmmaker Jessica Hausner with a detachment more professorial than wry, "Little Joe" manages to exert a peculiar pull in spite of being constructed with material you've likely seen elsewhere.
Her signature style, based in miniature gestures, has a peculiar appeal: Rarely does such serrated, asymmetrical music — often diced up into odd time signatures, or improvised freely — feel this fun to listen to.
Containing all the classic John Irving tropes — a bear, rape, body-building, and social privilege — "The Hotel New Hampshire" follows a peculiar family as they open hotels in New Hampshire, Vienna, and Maine.
The photographer and I roll up the windows as we get closer to the event, called Rock Against Überfremdung ("Uberfremdung" is a peculiar German word that roughly translates to being "swamped by foreigners").
In addition to the names and placements of these symbols, the SPLC also noted a peculiar social history attached to them, which they charted in an infographic in April 2016 that has recently resurfaced.
Scientists have discovered a new way for tiny pieces of plastic to move around the ocean: through the poop and snot made by a peculiar sea creature that's half the size of your hand.
A rich, reddish-brown in color, it's a peculiar choice for a painting support, since it goes wavy across wide swatches while, elsewhere, holes open up and thickly sewn stitches meander across the surface.
I've spent hours pretending to be a pirate, eating bananas in a peculiar fashion, smiling until I cried, and getting drunk to the point of dizziness — all with the help of an Xbox controller.
For the past few weeks, my Facebook feed has turned into a peculiar kind of political battleground: My friends who support Hillary Clinton are duking it out with my friends who support Bernie Sanders.
White identity politics in America are a peculiar perversion of identity politics as we know them, and are exemplified by the post-Reconstruction and Jim Crow politics as well as by modern white supremacists.
Azealia Banks and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis make for a peculiar duo; Kristin Kontrol, M83, and School of Seven Bells offer widely varying takes on electronic pop; Mitski and Sheer Mag deliver raw, gritty rock.
In it a peculiar fusion of the individual and the historical took place, which means the events burdening a whole community are perceived by a poet as touching him in a most personal manner.
Created in 1895 and specializing in 20163,500-euro ($1,667) luxury shoes with a peculiar two-tone shine and finish, Berluti has been trying to re-invent itself as an upmarket ready-to-wear brand.
"The reason why it's a peculiar situation is not only because a lot of these gene therapy products are targeting small populations," said Matt Kapusta, chief executive of UniQure, which is developing hemophilia treatments.
It's a peculiar fact that "The Great Gatsby," a fairly bitter, even furious novel about class and disillusionment, murder, bootlegging and corruption, is so often remembered only for its parties and shimmering love story.
Wishing that a show would be more superficial is a peculiar thought, but there are different kinds of sophistication, and "Who Rules the Land of Denial" exposes Hawley's enterprise at its best and worst.
When emotional intelligence (EQ) first appeared to the masses, it served as the missing link in a peculiar finding: people with average IQs outperform those with the highest IQs 70 percent of the time.
" The church takes its name from the Bible ("ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people") and, according to its website, is "positioned for the end-time harvest.
That might be a peculiar addition to most bands' catalogs, but not so much for Murder By Death, who have spun long tales of redemption for their ne'er-do-well protagonists in their albums.
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Now, Wall Street is approaching a "peculiar junction" ahead of the Federal Reserve's meeting next week, at which the central bank's leadership is widely expected to raise interest rates by a quarter-point, Cramer said.
It is a peculiar landscape through which men walk the "Negro half-towns and sham-cities" delivering messages verbatim for a few dollars, and elderly Confederate soldiers are alive and doddering just over yonder hill.
For now, the company will have to navigate a peculiar if widely envied situation — capitalizing on its apparent popularity with an audience that it cannot fully acknowledge, watched over by wary but increasingly complicit parents.
"  The Nobel Prize-winning scientist referred to Chinese people as "a peculiar herd-like nation … often more like automatons than people" in one passage, further adding that "even the children are spiritless and look lethargic.
Steve Morrow had no idea what he was getting into when he put in a peculiar bid on the New Zealand auction site Trade Me.  The sale was for "one 1000" hens, according to Stuff.
It is a peculiar strength of American democracy, even by Western standards, that journalists are empowered by the First Amendment to pry into even the most protected government secrets with, generally speaking, little to fear.
Entering Thursday evening, Mr. Biden had subsisted as a peculiar kind of favorite: 76 and rusty, his speeches heavier on curious digression than stirring crescendo, unapologetic about his affection for a bygone era of comity.
That's because Silicon Valley has long featured a peculiar paradox: The place that is home to some of the world's richest people is also home to some of its stingiest donors in their local communities.
Restaurants across the country have been facing a peculiar problem: Delivery drivers show up to pick up orders the restaurant never knew about, and customers call to check in on orders the restaurant never received.
Even though it takes time for their dynamic to evolve into a romantic relationship (Teiji literally chafes at Lucy's initial attempt to set the mood), the two eventually fall into a peculiar but stable routine.
Only in America do medical treatment and recovery coexist with a peculiar national dread: the struggle to figure out from the mounting pile of bills what portion of the fantastical charges you actually must pay.
But across the city — the nexus of a weekend of national demonstrations cresting with a women's march on Saturday — a peculiar sensation took immediate hold, visiting every corner of the capital on its biggest day.
It featured a peculiar slide show suggesting that Arnold Schwarzenegger, as the "Terminator," might save the subway, or that Chris Christie, driving a yellow hummer SUV, should pay higher tolls to enter from New Jersey.
Space physicists have now found that when the sun's magnetic field is heading toward Earth in a more east-west orientation relative to Earth's magnetic poles, it compresses our magnetic tail in a peculiar way.
"I think in this particular case it would be more likely than not that a judge would admit the evidence, because he did have a peculiar way of going about his sexual assault," Wigdor said.
This is the reason why smaller asteroids, and also comets, are often not spherical; an example here is comet 103P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, which was revealed by the Rosetta probe to have a peculiar rubber-duck shape.
There's a peculiar dynamic going on in Los Angeles this week, as E3 — the biggest gaming showcase of them all — is taking place and, once again, paying little attention to the hugely profitable mobile games market.
LONDON (Reuters) - For a currency that has seen some of its biggest ever one-day moves on the back of Brexit, there is a peculiar calm in sterling hedging prices surrounding December's critical European Union summit.
"At the same time, we have to understand that these stress tests are a peculiar kind of test ... they don't allow for reactions on the part of banks once the problem has come out," he said.
Plug Carly Rae Jepsen's name into Twitter or Instagram and you'll be greeted with a peculiar sight: Dozens and dozens of comments narrating exactly what is literally happening in the photo, and crowning her for it.
Henry and his graduate student, Wei Lv, were interested in a peculiar feature of polymers, long chains of molecules all strung together, with thousands upon thousands of different modes of vibration that interact with each other.
When considering a trade for someone who's volatile enough to either become a perennial All-Star or a peculiar role player, everyone involved must deal with a level of uncertainty that should make them quite uncomfortable.
Love Is Blind began as a show with a peculiar stunt and hypothesis: matching people with their soulmates without letting them see each other and seeing if love would turn into a marriage after 38 days.
That leads to a peculiar reality: Some of the most popular ideas are in many cases held in abeyance so that they can be used to pass legislation that most members would oppose if considered separately.
The movie is nevertheless compelling, thanks largely to the interplay between Cumberbatch and Macdonald, in what amounts to a peculiar twist on a love story within the up-close-and-personal contours of a stage play.
Never one to turn her nose up at a peculiar request, Wheatland set to work making a warm winter vest of poodle, a beanie quickly followed and before long, the pet-oriented garment requests came galloping in.
We don't yet have a good idea of how the Android interface will scale to such a peculiar shape, and we don't know how well Samsung has optimized its software to make use of the extra space.
Part of this stemmed from his low finishing rate and perceived lack of killer instinct, the strange moods he seemed to show in his bouts, and part of it was just that Charles was a peculiar person.
That's a peculiar thing for Google to say, a company that's long championed the openness of the web, and it does create a situation where only Google-approved partners will get their content onto the Smart Display.
Angell Animal Medical Center, a 24/7 veterinary hospital operated by the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (MSPCA) in Boston, recently treated a bulldog named Mortimer, who had a peculiar taste in snacks.
Chris, who instantly sizes up the situation, is very pleasant about the fact that his host is putting on some kind of delicately awful performance, a peculiar display of good manners as a form of cognitive dissonance.
It was a peculiar sight: At the Republican National Convention, Sajid Tarar, the founder of Muslims for Trump, strode onto the stage and delivered the benediction, leading the delegates in prayer and even quoting the Prophet Muhammad.
Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump said Tuesday he remains confident in his treasury secretary, a day after markets tanked on fears about the Federal Reserve and a peculiar call between Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and bank CEOs.
Elsewhere, it's back to the drawing board for a piece that wants to skewer a peculiar slice of American history but needs to first work on getting its rhymes right: Does "whores" really chime with "hors d'oeuvres"?
As someone who hadn't dipped her toes (literally or figuratively) in Baby Foot yet, and who has a peculiar fascination with conducting taste tests (aren't they so fun?), it was obvious what would have to be done.
An intense personal trainer (Cobie Smulders) and her equally intense boss (Guy Pearce) find themselves in a peculiar love triangle when a wealthy and depressed slacker (Kevin Corrigan) shows up at their gym looking to get fit.
" Kubrick, according to the transcript of the session in his archive at the University of the Arts London, gave Mr. Rain only a few notes of direction, including: — "Sound a little more like it's a peculiar request.
The second problem with protected areas is the result of a peculiar foible of the human mind: Politicians, like the rest of us, are suckers for numeric targets like the ones in the Convention on Biological Diversity.
That shocking act remains the best distillation of the mind-set of this president: He considers himself answerable to no one, and he has a peculiar notion that law enforcement should serve his political and personal interests.
The former vice president is in a peculiar position in that he is the clear national front-runner but is not necessarily expected to win Iowa, where more left-leaning candidates have a history of doing well.
KABUL, Afghanistan — The Afghan government faces a peculiar problem in at least two major provinces: It provides precious electricity, some of it imported at costly rates from neighboring countries, but Taliban militants collect most of the bills.
Clad in a variety of different unique outfits (including what looks to be a diving helmet), Styles traverses the muddy roads of Eroda all by his lonesome until he meets a peculiar fish with a similar problem.
By hitching his wagon to the Trump train, Mandel is pinning his political future to a peculiar politician whose low approval ratings may not improve over the next two years, especially if the Ohio economy doesn't improve.
In Chapter 3, "Inside the Reporter's Head," the authors explain that journalists are a peculiar species motivated not by money, but by an odd mix of cynicism and idealism and an egomaniacal drive to "own" a story.
While the 2016 election was a peculiar inflection point for the witch hunt, in that Trump's co-option and usage of the terms affects some things about its meaning and broader usage, it remains a gendered narrative.
A peculiar sort of stalemate emerged as ranchers continued to claim public lands via unauthorized and illegal fencing while resisting reciprocal efforts by the federal government to give all of the same land away for next to nothing.
Sweeping Gracie with an electric chair sweep from the lockdown (the entangled grapevining way that Gracie's leg is tied up), Bravo allowed Gracie's leg to pass over his head and came up into a peculiar, tangled top position.
In addition to allowing fans to breathe a collective sigh of relief, they also highlighted a peculiar quirk on the part of the press, one that seems to surface every time a superstar releases an album these days.
George Shaw is known for his small, modestly observed representations of suburban and rural landscapes around Britain in Humbrol enamel paint, more commonly used by model-makers, capturing a peculiar British charm in their quietness and occasional bleakness.
Every year on the first Sunday of April in Kawasaki, Japan, one might cross paths with a peculiar sight — a succession of enormous erect penises parading down the street under the strength of men in traditional female garb.
In a peculiar case of life imitating art imitating life, Pinterest has announced a new recipe-finding feature that makes use of computer vision to tell you about a dish when you point your smartphone camera at it.
So it's clear the general winding down of satellite work at Google has pushed some of its in-house talent to competitors, but Apple is still a peculiar pick given its nonexistent track record in the satellite space.
On May 2nd, in a peculiar earnings call, he dismissed sensible questions from Wall Street analysts about production problems and cash burn as "dry", and labelled one analyst asking about Tesla's need to raise money a "boring bonehead".
As it happens, the Oakland Raiders are a peculiar business in the entertainment industry, exempt from anti-trust regulations and founded on the principle that customers will pay lots of money to demonstrate their loyalty to this company.
At the stroke of a key on a peculiar-looking keyboard (the first two rows spelled e-t-a-o-i-n s-h-r-d-l-u), little brass molds dropped down chutes in an overhead magazine.
It was a peculiar sight which made me realize that I am fine with a ban on sweeps and dumps and clinch work, but at least let the fighters have the option to catch a kick and retaliate.
The former factory of pharmaceutical giant Pfizer may seem like a peculiar place to host an art exhibition, but the 660,000 square foot building has more than enough open space to house the work of 56 MFA students.
A weakening U.S. dollar is having a peculiar impact on stocks this year, specifically when it comes to the behavior of value and growth stocks, according to Tom Lee, founder and head of research at Fundstrat Global Advisors.
DAKAR, Senegal — The fate of the presidency in Gambia took a peculiar turn Friday night when the longtime incumbent appeared on state television to announce that he was rejecting the results of last week's vote that ousted him.
Nevertheless, the missile has a "peculiar mode of guiding flight" and "a powerful warhead," KCNA said, and is the first public weapons test since the second U.S.-North Korea summit in Hanoi ended with no agreement in February.
The project, which had its debut earlier this year at the Tribeca Interactive Playground, puts you and a partner inside of a peculiar laboratory where you are tasked with fixing the offline AI system before time runs out.
Now believe it or not, we don't necessarily teach recruits in the academy how to rescue drowning deer, but we do teach them how to think on their feet and adapt and improvise when a peculiar situation presents itself.
The answer is that such exclusive and clubbish nomination practices ensure that the Court will suffer a peculiar kind of intellectual insularity, reflecting the deep biases built into Ivy League legal education and the narrowness of the justices' experiences.
Elizabeth McCracken is a peculiar case, because every time I've met her I've liked her more — and then every book I read, I'm more knocked over by her sensibility, her point of view, her economy and power and empathy.
This moment comes when series host Brian Reed is interviewing a man named Olan Long, a former member of the Air Force who for years had a peculiar romantic relationship with the subject of the podcast, John B. McLemore.
There, among an array of self-taught artists' essays in erotica and titillation, surreptitiously snapped photos of women made with handmade cameras by the Czech Miroslav Tichý (1926-22010) will reek of voyeurism and a peculiar — or creepy-desperate?
Mr. Gersten, 32, worked from an impromptu music studio inside the Mmuseumm, a peculiar contemporary museum the size of an elevator shaft in the narrow Cortlandt Alley in TriBeCa, where people handed him the papers through a window opening.
It's a peculiar grab bag of ideas and visual modes, and Mr. Jones has said it was influenced by his impressions of Berlin during his childhood, when he spent time there with his father, David Bowie, in the '70s.
In a review of Trump's 2015 manifesto Crippled America and 1987 business memoir The Art of the Deal, Amis writes that "Readers will now have to adjust themselves to a peculiar experiment with the declarative English sentence," he writes.
Dr. Travis Bradberrypublished this post originally onWhen emotional intelligence (EQ) first appeared to the masses, it served as the missing link in a peculiar finding: people with average IQs outperform those with the highest IQs 70% of the time.
In May 1914, Alexander Graham Bell delivered a commencement address to some high school students in Washington, DC. The 67-year-old inventor of the telephone gave a peculiar speech—a crotchety ode to observation, measurement, and gumshoe curiosity.
This Pride Month arrives at a peculiar moment for Ms. Ortega, who now resides in Corona, Queens: It's a time when part of her identity is being celebrated, even while the climate around refugees fleeing violence is rapidly shifting.
Then, after dancing the night away with a stranger at a local bar, Moll is saved from assault by Pascal (Johnny Flynn), a mysterious outsider whose habit of poaching rabbits lends him a peculiar odor — which she finds intoxicating.
It is also a peculiar twist in a case that simultaneously shook Mr. Bruck, who described the massacre in court as "an astonishing, horrible attack," and led him, a longtime champion of racial equality, to defend a white supremacist.
Irish-American Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Group of Boston (1995), the court held that while anti-discrimination laws do not "as a general matter" violate the First Amendment, they do when "applied in a peculiar way" that burdens speech.
Each of Long's seemingly abstract works are carefully constructed to enact a miniature existential crisis in the viewer, who is forced to engage with a peculiar reflection of themselves in order to examine the rest of the sculpture closely.
Pappas is a member of the Executive Council, a peculiar New Hampshire institution consisting of five elected members, each representing a district of one-fifth the state's population, who can veto pardons, nominations, and contracts approved by the governor.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads The recently closed exhibition by Shimon Attie at Jack Shainman gallery is the documentation of a peculiar work made two years ago and installed in contested locations in Israel and the Palestinian Territories.
The conspiracy against Fun Time took a peculiar building and turned it into a larger-than-life legend, much like shadows on a wall appear large and scary, and take on an entirely different shape than the objects they come from.
Yet in bringing W. Bruce Cameron's book to the screen, director Lasse Hallstrom and the writers (Cameron among them) have served up a peculiar kibble of vignettes, wrapping reincarnation and life lessons together in a sappy Hallmark Channel-style doggy sweater.
Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun, is a peculiar ice giant that is tilted at a 98-degree angle — while every other planet spins on a vertical axis in relation to its orbit, Uranus spins on a horizontal axis.
A peculiar stylistic device adds to the book's penumbral chill: the omniscient narrator's penchant for isolating words within a sentence, whether quarantining them inside quotation marks, sequestering them within parentheses, setting them off by dashes or distinguishing them by font.
His appearance in this year's championship game adds a peculiar twist to his legacy: he will retire as both one of the best quarterbacks of all time and one of the worst ever to lead a team to the Super Bowl.
A source within Conte's office also expressed frustration, saying the prime minister had done all he could to secure a good role for Italy, adding that the League had a "peculiar vision" of what was in the nation's best interests.
But in the 1930s, Einstein's friend R.W. Mandl visited and asked him to publish on a peculiar prediction of general relativity: that stars should deflect the light that passes by them like a lens would, something we today call gravitational lensing.
But on Friday, the Assembly unveiled a plan with a peculiar benchmark: It would allow legislators to earn 40 percent of the annual salary of New York State Supreme Court justices, which starts at $174,000, though some jurists earn more.
Right around this time of year in 240 BC—today is often given as the anniversary, in fact—Eratosthenes was pursuing a papyrus text preserved at the library at Alexandria, which he was the director of, and noted a peculiar observation.
In a peculiar twist, Derek Campos—whose most high profile victory against Melvin Guillard came as a direct result of a cheeky 'nodder'—found himself being nutted from below by the much taller Anderson at several points in the bout.
Mr. Trump's handling of China reflects not only his protectionist trade agenda and America First foreign policy, but also his reluctance to antagonize Mr. Xi personally — a peculiar deference that prompted the tough questions directed at Mr. Bannon over dinner.
And though it was generally accepted that whoever wrote it must have been trolling Harry Potter fandom, broader fandom culture, or both, the lingering uncertainty over the story's intent meant that My Immortal occupied a peculiar space in internet culture.
It takes a peculiar desperation to imagine that this defeat heralds the reinvigoration of the title race, though it is true to say that City has looked more flawed in recent weeks than seemed possible just a couple of months ago.
President Donald Trump, expressing his ire over trade imbalances this weekend, made a peculiar choice: He focused his criticism on two European brands, BMW and Mercedes-Benz, that have significant investments in two of the nation's most Trump-friendly states.
If it's a peculiar pose for Abzug, it makes perfect sense for Fierstein playing her; a star needs a big entrance, and there's nowhere else for the director Kimberly Senior to give him one on John Lee Beatty's blue bathroom set.
After the city hosted the 1976 Summer Olympics, the Expos moved to Olympic Stadium, with a Metro station below, a malfunctioning retractable roof above, a running track as the warning track behind the plate and a peculiar vibe all over.
A peculiar election schedule in Louisiana, which did not hold its Senate runoff until more than a month after the presidential contest, left Mr. Kennedy to celebrate his victory long after most of the public had moved on from congressional races.
Amazon Marketplace sellers who deal in new, used, and refurbished Nintendo products woke up to a peculiar notice yesterday: without warning, Amazon was telling third-party sellers that they could no longer list Nintendo products of any kind without seeking approval.
The attack comes at a peculiar moment in the Afghan capital, as the number of large and high-profile assaults has dropped in recent weeks, with officials crediting a recent prisoner swap with the Taliban for the dip in such violence.
A list of all the things he is not may seem like a peculiar introduction, but it is useful precisely because Mr. Mille's achievements of the last 16 years would lead you to define him as all of those things.
It is a peculiar twist that the museum finally came to fruition with the contribution of a $34 million gift from China, which is making new inroads into West Africa with donations and loans to governments eager for new infrastructure.
Nagarjuna developed a peculiar method of metaphysical i nquiry: x is the case; now x is not the case; now x both is and is not the case; finally x neither is nor is not the case — all possible outcomes existing in turn.
Recalling the 2015 case of Thomas Gilbert Jr., who was accused of shooting his hedge-fund manager dad over money, it appeared as if the case may have involved a fatal argument about finances, centering on a peculiar kind of millennial dysfunction.
While the photo is no doubt a stunning, stripped down portrayal of a duo we're accustomed to seeing so done up, the choice to forego fashion credits altogether is a peculiar one, especially for an issue that's supposed to be about, well, clothes.
I'll put together a peculiar set of instrumentation, or I'll combine sounds that are kind of unusual, and then I'm not quite sure where the text should fall in the music, or I'm not sure what the sound conjures up for me.
In addition to this considerable sum, the 2017 budget included $9.6 billion for foreign aid from Overseas Contingency Operations funds, a peculiar budgetary device created in 85003 to fund war-related spending in Iraq and Afghanistan that is conveniently exempt from sequestration cuts.
It was a peculiar site for a citizenry so routinely begrudged by systemwide delays, overcrowding, and station closures: a breathtakingly modern subway car that better resembled the sleek, hyper-speed trains of Asia and Europe, like something plucked straight out of Muskian fantasy.
The other, Ted Cruz, champion of the caucuses, is the scion of a particular version of America and of a peculiar era in its history; a politician who repels or baffles many of his compatriots, even as others rally to his godly standard.
On 2018's Safe in the Hands of Love, Yves Tumor forwent his usual ambient-collage approach for a peculiar hybrid of British big beat, harsh noise, and the sort of indie-rock drums that could've come straight off a Bloc Party album.
It was a peculiar era in which to be a teen-age girl, equally prudish and decadent: the era of Trump Tower and cocaine, AIDS and "Just Say No." It also made me a free-speech absolutist, wary of any clampdown on expression.
Two years later, in New York, Abdoh, with his brilliant company, Dar A Luz, devised "Father Was a Peculiar Man," an event that took place in the ungentrified meatpacking district, where the air smelled of offal and the cobblestones were slippery with blood.
Just a silly conspiracy theory, latched onto by an attention seeker who has a peculiar penchant for them," he wrote, referring to Trump's involvement in the conspiracy theory that former President Obama was born outside the U.S. "The white supremacists' march in Charlottesville?
On their first two albums, released by the folk label Prestige in 1964 and 1965, they freely rewrote lyrics to 1920s songs like "Blues in the Bottle" and "Bully of the Town," and sang gleefully with a peculiar kind of nasal harmony.
But it is also because of a peculiar irony of American history: The American creed has no more devoted adherents than those who have been historically denied its promises, and no more fair-weather friends than those who have taken them for granted.
The fourth theme entry is a charmer, something that didn't spring to mind at all, the way it was clued, and made for a peculiar letter series that I had a hard time recognizing, even though it's a classic group of three.
But let's consider Perry and Mr. Trump: it goes without saying that Trump would seem a peculiar choice on God's part, given that he hasn't shown much inclination to revere the meek, to help the poor, to withhold judgment against his enemies.
" In an article titled "The Diversity of Origin of the Human Races," published one month after the photos were taken, Agassiz described Africans as "submissive, obsequious, (and) imitative" and said they possessed "a peculiar indifference to the advantages afforded by civilized society.
Ms Gerwig has worked hard to bring a book she clearly loves up-to-date, and yet her efforts result in a peculiar mish-mash that is both obvious and confusing and—the worst sin for a film like this—emotionally empty.
A 47-year-old former venture capitalist and former state treasurer, Raimondo's centrist politics -- her pension revisions infuriated some state workers and progressives -- made her a target in a state with a peculiar brand of old-school, socially conservative Democratic machine politics.
Sometimes accompanied by equally precious music (resembling either a Casio keyboard demo or a new composition by Sufjan Stevens) but mostly just soundtracked with the noises of gently scraping plastic and crackling packaging, the ASMR-like videos inspire a peculiar sensation of satisfaction.
For years — long before recent ballot initiatives to legalize recreational marijuana gained traction in several states — marijuana has been a peculiar side interest for Rohrabacher, a congressman from a tony, and reliably red, district that includes some of Southern California's most affluent coastal communities.
Building a sci-fi podcast around Jenny Slate — an actress and comedian best known for her stints on Kroll Show and Parks and Recreation, as well as roles in movies like Obvious Child (2014) and Venom (2018) — may seem like a peculiar creative choice.
If you thought that Foer was a peculiar cultural phenomenon of the immediate post-9/11 era—a writer who satisfied a deep longing for a more innocent time with books that seemed to revel in a childlike wonder—his publisher would beg to differ.
The Bhagwan preached a peculiar mix of teachings that crossed traditions from both East and West, including a focus on mysticism, sexual freedom, the abolition of family and encounter therapy (which encouraged authentic face-to-face dialogues between two people or within a group).
Even the kids in attendance during an advance screening seemed notably antsy, perhaps because of the semi-arid stretches between the big slapstick and vaguely naughty sight gags that the gibberish-spouting Minions in particular provide, including a peculiar foray that lands them in prison.
Machairoceratops, up to 26 feet (8 meters) long, had two large, forward-curving spikes coming out of the back of its shield, each marked by a peculiar groove extending from the base of the spike to the tip, Ohio University paleontologist Eric Lund said.
Born in Berlin to a German mother and an Mongolian-Chinese father, and raised in Arizona when his mother married an Apache man, the artist directed his attention to "the regularities between cultures and how commercial imagery is often such a peculiar regularity," he says.
The great push came in the 1980s, when Jacques Delors, a French Socialist in charge of the European Commission, joined forces with Margaret Thatcher, Britain's right-wing prime minister, to create the single market, a product of a peculiar alliance forged in unusual times.
The exit of Pierre-Paul, a defensive end who was once a Giants linchpin but also the star of a peculiar episode over a finger he injured in a fireworks accident, is yet another intrepid move by Dave Gettleman, the team's new general manager.
"A small, wiry middle-aged" divorced father with minimal hair and "a peculiar, slightly rolling gait," Torgerson is more than twice Schuster's age and distinguished enough that she read about him in her coursework at journalism school, an aphrodisiac if there ever was one.
Over the past two years, while not working on an op-ed about childhood nutrition (a peculiar amount of time to develop an opinion on a topic that is also one's job), Karen has been congratulating herself for sending Ruby to an integrated public school.
But it also comes with a peculiar kind of danger: By seeking safe investments, programs like this could cast aside the strides made to expand educational opportunities to higher-risk students and reduce the appeal of educations that focus on noble, but lower compensated, professions.
Trump ran on a campaign of throwing the moneyed interests out of the capitol and promising to "drain the swamp" of corruption in Washington, DC. Stocking his transition team with Wall Street titans and his own children seems like a peculiar way to do that.
Earlier today, Los Angeles-based writer and comedian Miel Bredouw claims she received a peculiar message from the general counsel of Barstool Sports, a sports and lifestyle website that caters to young men and is widely known for its aggressive and sometimes offensive approach to cultural commentary.
Several of the fifth-generation Rockefellers who manage the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Rockefeller Family Fund are funding a peculiar witch hunt against Exxon Mobil, the most direct corporate descendant of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company – and a few of their relatives have had enough.
However, in a strange case of Cold War-era espionage, Graham Mitchell, deputy director of MI5, the UK's intelligence bureau, was suspected of being a double agent for the Soviets, and a handful of correspondence chess games played a peculiar, albeit tenuous role in the drama.
He adapted the dynamic of the New York School's monumental paintings: monochromatic expanses, occasioning awe, like those of Barnett Newman, overlaid with moodily imperfect silk-screened photography of grisly car crashes, say, or the preternaturally beautiful face of Elizabeth Taylor, each fearsome in a peculiar way.
It's a peculiar part of the exchange because the act of making a portrait is semi-collaborative, but I'm the one framing the picture, deciding when to click the shutter, choosing which picture to use... So I realize that I have more power in the exchange.
In a peculiar twist, he takes over the job vacated by Max Hollein, who left earlier this year to take over the leadership at none other than the Met and now fills the position from which Mr. Campbell announced in February 2017 that he would leave.
What a peculiar kind of heartbreak it must be, Pisces, to hold onto a cherished work of art for decades, to take daily pleasure in looking at it, to finally decide to part with it, and then to see it sell well below its estimate at auction.
" A peculiar number of McDormand's early roles were female accessories to men with violent tendencies: the Lois Lane to a disfigured and enraged anti-superhero in "Darkman"; the brutally beaten wife in "Mississippi Burning"; the wife of a Korean War veteran who attempts suicide in "Chattahoochee.
That's a peculiar size for a gaming laptop, or any kind of laptop for that matter (though it may not be an anomaly for long.) Origin has, in effect, stuffed a bigger screen into its lightly tweaked 15-inch EVO 15-S chassis, which debuted last year.
For the two young does that looked on from a distance, it must have been a peculiar sight: One of the deer's legs was roped up to a tree, his eyes were covered in blue fabric, and a tube in his snout delivered oxygen from a tank.
Because of a peculiar will that should appall any trusts and estates lawyers in the audience, young Grace Harkaway (Caroline Strang) must either marry the 60-something Sir Harcourt Courtly (Colin McPhillamy) or see all her income and property go to his heir, Charles Courtly (Ian Holcomb).
By applying an external magnetic field on a Bose-Einstein condensate, the researchers could arrange each of the rubidium atoms' spins in a special configuration, so that they all face the same way along the surface of a ball, but twist in a peculiar way inside the ball.
The premise of the post was like that there was a picture of a dress on a hanger, and it was lit in a peculiar fashion, and that some people viewing it would see the dress as being one color, and other people would see it as another.
The first Harry Potter prequel, in a series of five, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them hits theaters Friday and follows the life of magizoologist Newt Scamander — played by Oscar-winner Eddie Redmayne — as he travels to New York with a peculiar case filled with magical creatures.
" Low-salt diets may reduce the risk of death The new research, which included almost a million patients overall, also found limited evidence that a low-salt diet may reduce the risk of death, but in an editorial accompanying the review, experts called that a "peculiar and controversial finding.
"So the notion that climate science had great forecasts and finance had terrible forecasts and yet no one in finance used climate science struck me as a peculiar state of affairs and I tried to figure out what I could do about it and learn from it," he said.
The choice to place the collection in the middle of Samsung's experiential space at 837 Washington Street was a peculiar one, but not that much if you take into consideration the attendees: lots of millennials — and iPhones — and the fact that the show was a collaboration with Tumblr.
"Issues such as low trust in institutions, bipartisanship, identity politics and demographic divides will continue to fuel political risk in the U.S." It's been a peculiar year for the market, with stocks swooning at the beginning, rallying into July and trading in a tight but volatile range since.
Maybe he wanted to see what sort of magical creature could maintain such a peculiar hold over its faithful that they would not abandon the temple even after it was hopelessly overrun, that they would stay and die by the thousands, sacrificing their own blood on its grounds.
There's a family-affair feel to the whole exercise, with Franco as Wiseau -- adopting a peculiar accent and unkempt mop of hair -- and his brother, Dave Franco, playing Sestero, who is initially caught up in Wiseau's enthusiasm before beginning to grow weary of apologizing for his pal's strangeness.
On a day when you also report that President Trump's rhetoric and policies do not accurately address or even acknowledge the long-range threats posed to the United States, according to the "Worldwide Threat Assessment" issued by our nation's top intelligence agencies, a peculiar American malady comes into focus.
"President Trump appears to have a peculiar overfascination with African-American athletes and a negative fascination," said Douglas A. Blackmon, the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book "Slavery By Another Name" and the host of "American Forum," a weekly show produced by the University of Virginia's Miller Center.
And again this had the effect of increasing the distance between us, so that even as I saw he remained agitated, tense and anxious, that he was miserable with something he still had to say, I was suffused with a sense of accomplishment, a peculiar and sharp pleasure.
Menace certainly emanates from the ghostly-faced bluecoat in "La Hara," of that same year—its title an old Latino twist on O'Hara, from a time when New York cops were stereotypically Irish—but so does a peculiar majesty, evoking a child's awe at magical monsters in folktales.
As a new medium, virtual reality is in a peculiar predicament: Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Sony and others are making significant, high-profile investments in VR, with VR on center stage at their industry events and featured prominently in their company roadmaps; it's regularly hailed as a new multibillion-dollar industry.
It was something like a Friday Night Massacre, a peculiar reversal of the famous Saturday Night Massacre in the 1970s, when the attorney general and deputy attorney general resigned in protest during the Watergate scandal after refusing to carry out President Richard Nixon's order to fire the special prosecutor investigating him.
A couple living next door to the rental house Zinke and his wife have leased since 2015 in Eastern Market, witnessed a peculiar scene Monday night when a 6-foot-tall unknown man in his 30s, whose black Mercedes SUV was idling outside their house for hours, said he was Zinke.
Getting caught in a tech support loop — waiting on hold, interacting with automated systems, talking to people reading from unhelpful scripts and then finding yourself on hold yet again — is a peculiar kind of aggravation that mental health experts say can provoke rage in even the most mild-mannered person.
In "Last Days at Hot Slit," the selection from "Intercourse" includes a beautiful delineation of free will that builds to an optimistic demand that men more considerately exercise theirs: There has always been a peculiar irrationality to all the biological arguments that supposedly predetermine the inferior social status of women.
It's a peculiar fashion norm: Design convention dictates that a man's buttons should be on the right hand side of a garment (say, a shirt) with the buttonholes on the left, but that a woman's shirt should be the other way around: buttons on the left, holes on the right.
Last night Kanye West abruptly announced that he had changed the title of his soon-to-be-released Swish (formerly So Help Me God) to Waves, igniting a peculiar burst of outrage from fans of the influential, incarcerated New York rapper Max B, fount of all things wavy in modern rap.
Graeme Close, professor of human physiology, Liverpool John Moores University: Vitamin D is a peculiar vitamin in that it is synthesized in our bodies with the aid of sunlight, so people who live in cold countries, or who spend a lot of time indoors, are at risk of a deficiency.
I wouldn't want to miss Michael Tilson Thomas conducting the Sixth in his farewell performance at the hall before stepping down as music director of the San Francisco Symphony (March 18), but Daniel Barenboim has a peculiar, productive way with these scores that makes these concerts more promising than the norm.
"We're in a peculiar moment, not just for queer life but for the country and the world," wrote Nathaniel Frank, an author and historian whose in-depth chronicle of the American marriage equality movement, Awakening: How Gays and Lesbians Brought Marriage Equality to America, was published this April on Harvard Press.
A rather grisly human torso washed ashore on a Miami beach does make an unsettling appearance in the book, and was the image that riled his National Geographic editors (all of the shots in A Peculiar Paradise are published for the first time, so they weren't selected for the magazine).
Simmons has taken a peculiar path to the NBA, going through two junior colleges before a stint at University of Houston, declaring for the NBA draft early, going undrafted, playing a year in the American Basketball League (ABL), and then, critically, two years in the D-League with the Austin Spurs.
So when I stumbled across a peculiar body oil that claimed to be "ideal for soothing minor irritation, especially from ladyscaping," I immediately texted the ingredients list to my gynecologist to see if jojoba oil, carrot seed oil, tamanu oil, and extract from the herb plant eclipta prostrata were safe for the area.
Over the years and under Karp's leadership, Tumblr offered a platform to writers, artists, other creators with a unique penchant for fandom and a peculiar and unique aesthetic, giving those voices a place to express themselves, find a following — and occasionally go viral in ways reminiscent of the earliest days of web blogging.
But the problem is it does create issues if you're talking about someone who's out of the jurisdiction that the victim is in... It's a peculiar situation where every country has its own set of laws, and the internet has made it possible for us to potentially do terrible things to each other.
"This creates a peculiar scenario where two defendants spraying racist graffiti on a wall might reasonably expect to be punished more harshly than one individual who physically attacks someone because of the color of their skin," said Ellen Rosenblum, Oregon's attorney general, in testimony last month before the state's Senate Judiciary Committee.
While it clearly channeled soap operas, macabre hits like "The Twilight Zone," and surreal fare like "The Prisoner" — not to mention classic films like "Peyton Place" and "Laura" — it became a pop culture phenomenon, at least briefly, because no one had put these elements together in such a peculiar and evocative way.
" The book was banned in Poland but made its author famous in America, and what followed was a peculiar kind of American success story: lecture gigs at Yale and Princeton, marriage to a wealthy widow, a divorce and another marriage, affairs, more novels, the inevitable backlash, a cameo in Warren Beatty's "Reds.
Once with walls built entirely out of old stones — some nearly three meters-thick — the now privately owned Castillo de Matrera in the small town of Villamartín features smooth concrete additions, with Spanish architect Carlos Quevedo Rojas choosing to transform the once-crumbling structure into a peculiar hybrid of ancient fortress and blocky modern monument.
Shore has remained a vestigial Romantic in his always implied presence, as someone stopping in space and time to frame views that exert a peculiar tug on him—perhaps as simple a sight as a battered troughlike shelf, outdoors in Mexico, holding citrus fruits arranged with an elegance that is innate to Mexican folk culture.
The insider-ish nature of that doesn't undermine the movie -- Wiseau is such a peculiar character that a lot of the laughs are pretty broad -- but one suspects "The Disaster Artist" will play better among those with a midnight-movie sensibility in general, and those who've seen (or endured) its source material in particular.
For some reason, when I first moved to New York City after college, I made a peculiar promise to myself: That when I finally became a published writer, I would use my first official paycheck as an author to buy something I then deemed the ultimate symbol of adulting — a pair of Gucci loafers.
When I asked him what drew him to this year's event, he began to tell me his own story of a peculiar sighting he encountered when he was 18 years old off the coast of New Brunswick—just 200 kilometres straight across the Bay of Fundy—that same first week of October in 1967.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads In The Souls of Black Folk (19993), W. E. B. Dubois focused on an issue that mainstream America – from Hollywood to the White House – prefers to ignore: It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others.
But Mai and Nguyen's book comes at a peculiar time for Lolita fashion: Cult-like magazines entirely dedicated to Harajuku subculture and Lolita fashion have folded in the last couple of years: CUTiE, the first magazine that used the term kawaii in reference to Japanese aesthetic and fashion, ended its run in 2015; Kera!
In "Playtest," a traveler finds himself in a terrifying immersive experience; two women connect in a peculiar town in "San Junipero"; a young boy is threatened into a dangerous game in "Shut up and Dance"; a soldier faces turmoil in "Men Against Fire" and in "Hated in the Nation," the internet's most disliked people are mysteriously killed.
The first two episodes, which will premiere back to back, underscore a peculiar strain of faux-reluctant reality-TV players who combine self-pity with a lack of self-awareness, as Jenner insists that she hasn't mastered "this fame thing" like her telegenic brood while inviting a camera crew to follow her around like a puppy.
Sixty years before the Workshop was formed, writing in The Souls of Black Folk (1903), W. E. B. DuBois summed up why a group like this was necessary, and why it had to happen in the early 1960s: It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others.
In a short joint statement, they cited their opposition, called for a special session "in accordance with the State Constitution," and included a peculiar reason behind their objection: "We aim to repeal this ordinance before it goes into effect to provide for the privacy and protection of the women and children of our state," the document reads.
As quite a few characters in "The Secret Guests" point out, the Republic of Ireland is a peculiar choice of sanctuary for the heirs to the throne, as it had won its battle of independence from Britain not that long ago, after a nasty civil war that left the six northern counties still part of the United Kingdom.
Perhaps nowhere has this been seen more acutely than in Alabama's Second Congressional District, where Republican voters face a peculiar choice in a runoff: A congresswoman who condemned Mr. Trump but has since voted nearly in lock step with him, or a challenger who was once a Democrat who supported Nancy Pelosi, but now sounds much like the president.

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