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What is peculiar about this is that much of what Gopnik knows about Picasso he knows from Richardson.
"In 1997," Rafferty writes, "independent movie after independent movie arrived in theaters on waves of critical admiration, and moviegoers unaccustomed to the peculiar moral universe of indie-ness must have emerged from these experiences deeply perplexed: wondering, perhaps, how the reviewers who carped about studio films like Steven Spielberg's majestic, flawed Amistad could embrace wholeheartedly stuff as dubious as Deconstructing Harry , The Sweet Hereafter , Boogie Nights , [and] In the Company of Men ." Rafferty correctly identifies indie film's "air of smugness."
One peculiar thing about the Washington tax revolt is that taxes are relatively mild out here.
Time 's cover wrap-up mentions the most peculiar New Year's party: a New York event where the Internet millionaire host tried "to coordinate six fornicating couples into simultaneous orgasms at midnight."
The old New Yorker was whimsical, often fatally so: Writers were expected to indulge their own peculiar interest and damn public opinion.