Word: unexpectedness
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Despite the tension surrounding the sale, and Lacroix's moodiness even when all is well, his collection was devoid of angst or melancholy. Lacroix seemed to delight in showing off his artisans' skill with feather petticoats, elaborate embroideries and lace appliqués--all the details that are so costly and...
Brown back into his familiar role - the hugely effective Chancellor and loyal soldier who marches along while Blair leads the parade. The Blair-Brown relationship would be fascinating even if there weren't so much at stake; the Irish rock star Bono wryly compares their creative tensions to those of...
DIED. GARRARD SMOCK JR., 86, third-generation Pullman porter who gained a measure of unexpected fame as one of the chief subjects of the book Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class, about the black men who, in the Golden Age of train...
Farfetched? Maybe not. Like a religious text, Lost is open to endless interpretation. In one episode, Kate and con man Sawyer (Josh Holloway) fight over a locked briefcase that she says holds something of hers. Sawyer offers to give it to her if she will say what's inside. "I...
The reason is a simple one: fair process must be granted to those accused of human rights breaches, lest the institutions that mete out judgments on rights violators trample on rights themselves. Though Judge Guzman may have been convinced by Pinochet’s lucidity during trial that the General...