Although the Ambassador was designed by Myron Hunt, its fate is intertwined with the peculiar and politicized legacy of an architect named Paul R. Williams, who died in 1980, at the age of eighty-five.
Still worse, the editorial does not mention the most "peculiar" outcome of his legacy — the squandering by subsequent leaders, at home and abroad, of the historic possibilities he created for Russian democracy and American-Russian relations.
And that tug-of-war reveals a peculiar wrinkle to her legacy: for as long as the battle about the meaning of her premiership goes on, another on how she should best be memorialised also continues with vigour.
But in doing so, you enter a realm of independent start-ups who are looking to service, and even gimmick, your digital legacy in some pretty peculiar ways.
To make his "legacy fund" even more peculiar, the City of Toronto, which was ransacked and riotted through by cops and protesters alike, did not receive a comparable "legacy" fund to repair the city.
Mr. Koch died three days later, and among his many legacies is now a peculiar question for Ms. Quinn: how to utilize an endorsement by a popular and influential advocate who also happens to be deceased.
Ellis is particularly good on the years after the War of Independence, when Washington, in semi-retirement, was absorbed by what he called "the peculiar circumstances of my case" — his heroic legacy.
The surrender of a garment that is as iconic as a burning cross was a peculiar act in a country with a legacy of slavery, Jim Crow, school segregation, whites-only water fountains and other prejudices that reverberate today.
How we process the death of an artist and how their legacy is then established is a peculiar and somewhat unsettling art.
