These and other peculiar touches transform Brutus Jones into a flailing doll being yanked toward destruction by unseen hands.
"Strangers Kiss," which opens today at the Embassy 72d Street theater, has a film noirish flavor and a lot of very peculiar touches, starting with its casting.
Maarouf's stories are deeply peculiar, occasionally touching and often very funny.
The peculiar boy touched the pretty truck.
The answer lies in music's peculiar ability to touch the emotions, particularly sadness and a sense of loss.
"Roadrunner was the most obvious song in the world, and the strangest," Greil Marcus wrote in Lipstick Traces, and indeed it is, in its simplicity, a touch peculiar.
The upper zones have a peculiar vegetation that touches the snow line.
This year the subject is Robert, Ray's insecure policeman brother, and why he and his ex-wife, Joanne, broke up (something to do with his peculiar habits, like touching food to his chin before eating it).
And yet books, at least the sacred volume of McCorkle's poetry, have an unexpectedly various, organic quality: "It was much heavier than I had expected, and very strange to touch — a peculiar texture, slightly oily in places, scaly in others".
What these places have in common, aside from a touch of the peculiar, is that they were the first New York City apartments, after college, of the people now campaigning to live rent-free in Gracie Mansion: the major candidates for mayor.
