With these books as well as Conversation in the Cathedral (1969) and Captain Pantoja and the Special Service (1973), Vargas Llosa joined that peculiar literary movement of the 1960s and early 1970s, the Latin American Boom.
In addition to mimicking the mouth patterns of their hosts, whydah nestlings also duplicate the specific begging calls and peculiar head movements of their hosts.
Main and Stadtman (1981, p. 301) noted, for example, that in one of the avoidant infants they observed that "in apparent direct response to the mother's physical rejection, the infant grimaced, engaged in odd and empty laughter, kicked her feet many times in sudden peculiar tension movements, and engaged in stereotypies".
It aimed at understanding the functional transformations that led to the emergence of the peculiar chewing motion of the Murinae, associating forwardly directed masticatory movements to cusp interlocking, a trait unique amongst mammals.
In a tense if peculiar moment in the civil rights movement, a state court had enjoined Mississippi State University from going to Michigan to play Loyola University of Chicago in the Midwest Regional of the prestigious tournament.
The movement was peculiar and seemed almost painful..
The movement was peculiar and seemed almost painful...
This was proper in Bach, but peculiar in the first movement of the Chopin Third Sonata, which is something other than a fugue.
In "Junction" (1961), which returned to repertory on Wednesday as part of the Taylor company's season at the David H. Koch Theater, the mixture of academic and nonacademic movement is peculiar — the dancers do elaborate series of turns, but they also walk or hold positions on all fours — and the way its phraseology fits that of movements from Bach cello suites is more so.
I picketed, organized, and wrote extensively about our very peculiar and vital labor movement.
