Word: unexpectedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The Coens also poke lots of gentle, knowing fun at the bowling alley which forms the backdrop for many funny scenes. Several wildly imaginative dream sequences use bowling motifs in unexpected ways: in one dream the camera takes the somewhat woozy point of view of a rolling bowling ball, and...
West and DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates, seated like acolytes beside and behind the author, grinned with the audience at her unexpected but graceful bravado. Perhaps their glee stemmed in part from how effectively her comments deflated the near-pomposity with which they had begun the evening...
"I shall not seek and I will not accept the nomination of my party." Thus on nationwide television this week, almost as a throwaway line, in one of the most painful speeches that he has ever delivered to the American people, did the 36th President of the U.S. declare his...
BOSTON: It was supposed to be a hearing of arguments, but Massachusetts Supreme Court justices did more talking than listening when the Louise Woodward case went to appeal Monday. Normally silent in such instances, their honors were playing devil's advocate -- so much so that both Woodward attorney Andrew Good...
His doctor thought he was one for the record books. His middle-aged parents welcomed him as an unexpected 8-lb. 15-oz. bundle of joy. Delivered by C-section in a suburban Los Angeles hospital, Baby Billy, as he was nicknamed by the local paper, is a medical miracle...