Word: unexpectedness
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Given the bareboned feel of Disc One, Disc Two is startlingly, well, boned; if One is proto-Pixies, Two is plush-parallel-universe Pixies. Gone is the ruggedness of even the originals’ instrumentation, replaced instead by electronic tones and effects slipped over unexpected delay-echoed muted horns and...
As they trawl southern China's gritty manufacturing towns, weary apparel buyers from companies like Polo Ralph Lauren and Liz Claiborne find an unexpected oasis at Building No. 15 of the Luen Thai clothing-manufacturing compound in Dongguan, Guangdong province. There, the visitors are greeted by a neatly uniformed, smiling...
Pixar, though, is also the studio whose previous two blockbusters, Monsters, Inc. and Finding Nemo, were about fathers or father substitutes fretting over their young charges. And it's the place that routinely achieves the unexpected and finds a huge audience to devour it. "Oftentimes people call animation a genre...
Unlike Dukakis in 1988, who seemed uncertain about how to respond when he was called a liberal, Kerry and running mate John Edwards have shown unexpected nerve on social issues. When Kerry and Bush were asked during the debate whether homosexuality is a choice, the President said he didn't...
4. Often I have unexpected flashes of insight or understanding while relaxing. TRUE FALSE