Next to Morrison, Manzarek was the most distinctive-looking band member, his glasses and wavy blond hair making him resemble a young English professor more than a rock star, a contrast to Morrison's Dionysian glamour his sensuous mouth and long, dark hair.

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Memorable Moments 2007 is a compilation of the most compelling, distinctive, intriguing, sound-rich and off-beat stories we've heard and seen on NPR this year.

NPR: Memorable Moments 2007 Introduction

Like many of the most palate-challenging delicacies, it gets its distinctive flavor (think rotten fish meets stinky cheese) from aggressive fermentation, which takes place during the six weeks or more the shark carcass spends buried underground.

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The most distinctive is the Pavilion, a stand-alone thatched cottage with two bedrooms near the putting green (and one of the three where Gidleigh allows your dog to bunk in).

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Rock layers here remained nicely horizontal, and the result has been the table-topped mesas that are some of the most distinctive features of the American Southwest.

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He sheds light on his exclusive use of the 'color' white -- a purist trademark that makes him one of the world's most distinctive architects.

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The Beatles changed the name of their company that oversaw their business interests to Apple in 1967, and released most of their later albums on the Apple Records label, with its distinctive labeling--a green-skinned Apple on the A-side and the halved apple for the B-side.

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Brightly painted two- and three-storey homes line the hillsides to this day, giving Valparaiso one of the most distinctive panoramas this side of San Francisco.

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One of the most interesting aspects of drinking super-expensive wines like those in the accompanying slide show is that they are all so distinctive.

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