Word: unexpectedness
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For the Bush Administration, some of the unexpected turns of Gulf War II reflect a perhaps too rigid adherence to ideology at the expense of on-the-ground practicality. But whatever the weaknesses in some of the Administration's early assumptions, they probably won't alter the outcome of the...
U.S. forces continued to charge forward through the arid plains of central Iraq, but they were forced to defend their positions every step of the way. A fierce and somewhat unexpected enemy was the Fedayeen Saddam, a paramilitary group headed by Saddam's brutal son Uday that was dispatched by...
Unsurprisingly, To Live is Better Than To Die is the kind of film that makes the Chinese authorities squirm. It follows the physical, mental and social disintegration of the Ma family, in which both parents and two of three children contracted HIV. In one scene, the Mas' infant son crawls...
LAWLESS HEART. Friends and family converge on a small town in northern England for a funeral in Lawless Heart. Stuart, the deceased, was a young gay man who leaves behind a healthy bank account and successful restaurant when he drowns off the Isle of Man. Nick, his partner, and Dan...
Since Broken Social Scene borrow their 10 members from Toronto’s experimental art rock scene, their ability to transcend simple pop-rock coquetry is no surprise. What is unexpected is the onslaught of irresistible hooks on You Forgot It In People, whose every track is meticulously detailed and...