Word: unexpectedness
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No one will mistake Crichton, who was also a Crimson editor, for a literary genius, but we can often be too hasty in dismissing the mass paperback masters as bad storytellers and writers. We forget that successfully crafting a compelling plot—weaving together the twists and unleashing unexpected...
The furor over the offensive cartoons originating from Denmark cannot be said to be unexpected. The caricatures are without a doubt condemnable and indeed tasteless, to say the least. For once, the West - especially Europe - is confronted with the need to re-examine its self-absorbed democratic culture, one that...
For the women, a few strong but unexpected performances propelled them to fourth.
Just as happens in the Olympics, where a star comes along and does something quite different from anything seen before, every so often a designer will, for no apparent reason, show something completely out of synch with everything else. In Milan, that designer is usually Miuccia Prada. After several seasons...
Called Yodok Story, the production is set in one of the most notorious of dictator Kim Jong Il's gulags, which alone houses an estimated 20,000 prisoners, including many jailed for what Pyongyang deems political crimes. If you've heard of Yodok, that's because it has already gained...