He'd heard it said that peculiar upbringings turned children gay.
"Mom's thing was 'I got to give him something to say yes to.' " It made for an odd upbringing, though he might have turned out a little peculiar anyway.
Yet those experiences were as formative to me as a writer as was my peculiar religious upbringing.
Hague had a comfortable middle-class upbringing but peculiar tastes which included reading Hansard reports of Westminster as a young teenager.
The Golden Girls (1985-91) For seven glorious and critically acclaimed seasons, White played the widowed and endearingly naive Rose Nylund, whose convoluted and peculiar stories about her small-town upbringing clashed brilliantly with Bea Arthur's cynical Brooklynite, Dorothy.
Allen's Judaism isn't intellectual and it isn't historical; it's personal, rooted in the specific milieu of his upbringing, the American urban cluster of Eastern European Jewish immigrants, and he imbues Bobby with its peculiar contradictions.
Peculiar rituals at dining clubs aside, it could be that the politics of spin and spectacle grows out of upbringings in which success depends on keeping up an act.
His upbringing was modest.
