"Big Train" was a curious failure, curious because of its virtuosity.
As reknowned as Sparks is for aged beef and fine wine, it has also been a beacon for the curious because of its association with a gangland killing.
But this is to reckon without Dear Diary's sense of wondrous discovery, as well as the curious translucence of its form.
This "loyal opposition" seems almost afraid of power; witness, say critics, the curious collapse of its strong presidential campaign in 1994, and Mr Castillo's similar fate.No such fear troubles the neoPANistas typified by Mr Fox.
In a plaza next to one of this city's most important shrines, the colossal Monument to the Revolution, a humble water pipe has become a curious monument of its own to what is, literally, Mexico City's continuing collapse.
It is an ensemble picture like Tarantino's Pulp Fiction or Altman's Short Cuts but, with the device of a deadpan prologue about the nature of coincidence, makes manifest the curious nature of its own very individual world.
But what most people really want to see are close-up pictures of the gorgeous swirls of the planet's atmosphere, and the curious braiding of its rings.NASA, no slouch at public relations, will make sure the taxpaying public gets these while the scientists get on with the dull but necessary measurements that will help to bridge the gap between stamp collecting and understanding.
Japan could point to the curious case of its neighbors, North and South Korea.
In the tributes, and in the old photos lining the walls, beat the gentle, curious spirit of its founder, my father.
Since the CK2 phosphorylation sites are distant from the Sirtuin domain of SIRT1, it is curious that deacetylation of its substrate is increased by CK2 phosphorylation.
