Word: unexpectedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Two games--and one highly unexpected loss--into this young Ivy League campaign, the Harvard men's basketball team will spend a weekend in New York trying to mend its ways against league doormats Columbia and Cornell.
Granted, spending the last weekend of reading period playing a pair of road games against combined 5-16 opponents sounds like time better spent cramming for that Justice final, but with one unexpected league loss already in the books, Harvard must bounce back on this two-game swing.
She called Fitzpatrick's death very unexpected.
9 Welcome to Sarajevo War-loving, war weary, a journalist rescues an orphan from the Bosnian chaos but can't explain his sudden fall into grace. Michael Winterbottom's film dares to suggest that small acts of goodness cannot stem the vast tides of historical tragedy. In movies, that's...
Writing mostly for large ensemble, Roberts has an almost cinematic gift for juxtaposition. To those familiar with similar works by Marsalis, passages of New Orleans polyphony and Ellingtonian coloration will not be unexpected; surprises include raucous group improvisations that flirt with free jazz cacophony. But where Marsalis' music sometimes suffers...