Word: unfamiliar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...usual, Hitchcock threatens constantly to steal the show from his own cast, but this time he must share it with Actor Walker, who makes the psychopathic strangler both sinister and perversely amusing, and two unfamiliar (and hence doubly effective) supporting players: Laura Elliott, as Walker's hateful, empty-headed victim, and Marion Lome, in the role of his mother, a slightly potty matron who dotes on her son and innocently manicures his nails when he wants his hands properly groomed for their homicidal task...
...good chance that they descended from a common ancestor. Certain lice carried by flamingos, for instance, indicate that flamingos are related to ducks and not related to storks. There is not much chance that flamingos recently picked up duck lice. Lice are timid pioneers, and only rarely colonize unfamiliar birds...
Manhattan's furred & feathered café socialites turned out for an opening meal on the house when the Gayelord Hauser "Look Younger" Menu became a regular part of the Savoy-Plaza cuisine. Along with such unfamiliar entrées as yogurt and wild rice nut-burgers, they downed many a sample of the only cocktail recommended. "The grapefruit juice is for health," explained TV's Eloise McElhone, "and the gin is for sin." Quickly downing one himself, Dietitian Hauser strode to the microphone, proudly announced that Mrs. Betty Henderson, café society's 75-year-old flapper...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Music Club's program Sunday night was remarkable for three reasons; its infrequency of performance, its historical importance, and its enjoyable music. The concert consisted entirely of sacred music of the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries. Music of this early period has several unfamiliar features which makes it difficult to grasp at first hearing. Landini cadences (familiar to all Music 1 students) appear frequently and contrast with the more modern dominant-tonic resolution. And the rather empty open fifth chords are a welcome relief after the lush harmonies of more recent composers...
Olympic rules and weight classes will be used. Lee will wrestle at 125 1/2 pounds and will go to Iowa to practice for a month before leaving the U.s. Olympic rules many handicap him, since he is unfamiliar will wrestling for touch pins. Where every touch counts...