Word: unexpectedness
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If French cycling fans could choose the ideal athlete to win the centennial edition of the Tour de France, who would he be? He'd be French, of course. Surely the last thing the French would want to see is the crowning of a Yank as Tour champ - especially one...
She remembered him caring for her and keeping her company after an unexpected surgery earlier this year and said it was the type of thing he would do without question, for anyone.
Matriculated, my favorite, is written and directed by Peter Chung, creator of the ground-breaking if perplexing MTV anim? Aeon Flux. Chung grasps the creepy biomechanics at the heart of the Matrix world. His machines and humans alike are faintly insectoid and fatally interdependent on each other. Remember how Morpheus...
translated into 11 more, and a film adaptation is in the works. This unexpected success has only energized the prolific McCall Smith to write yet more, including a series of mysteries set in his hometown of Edinburgh and a satirical look at German academia. The bow-tied, slightly rumpled McCall...
Abbas had been holding meetings with Hamas leaders in the weeks leading up to the Aqaba summit, hoping to persuade them to sign on to a cease-fire. His plan had been to buy back weapons from militants and integrate some of them into the Palestinian security services. While the...