In this peculiar exercise in déjà vu, the joyless, dissolute teen-agers from Easton Ellis's début, "Less Than Zero" (1985), resurface as joyless, dissolute adults.
At M-G-M, if you were a woman you had to do the "Metro walk" — a peculiar exercise that, as Basinger reconstructs it, required sucking in the stomach, squaring the shoulders, and stepping off with the right foot.
The peculiar exercise is part of a long-running and bitter battle that is pitting Smith and many of his panel's Republican members against Johnson and the panel's Democrats, NSF's leadership, and the academic research community.
He must do so while living down the charge that the indirect way Pirelli came to control Telecom Italia -- by acquiring 23percentt of Olivetti, the former typewriter maker, which owns 55percentt of the telephone company -- was just one more peculiar Italian exercise in capitalism without capital.
The reckoning of years is not merely the assignment of sequential numbers, itself an advanced intellectual exercise peculiar to the human species.
The positive effects of AA training on the AC test may seem somewhat peculiar, since no exercise in the training protocol directly targeted the biceps brachii muscles.
Even with America's Hardest Prisons and several other imitators available virtually 24/7 on the cable channels, the US penal system still exercises a peculiar fascination this side of the Atlantic.
Low levels of testosterone have been found to be associated with cardiovascular diseases including heart failure, where hypogonadism could play a role in favoring the onset of some peculiar features like decreased exercise capacity, diminished muscle mass and energy handling and final cachexia [ 3].
This does not mean that white men have a particular talent for oppression, but it does mean that they have had peculiar historical opportunities to develop, exercise and refine that talent.
At the same time we must remark, that however powerful and useful they may be as an instrument, they cannot be used with safety without considerable knowledge of the peculiar subjects, and without the exercise of great discretion in drawing results.
