Word: unfamiliar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Richler wrote a bad book. His film, on the other hand, is a disaster. The man couldn't cut good screen dialogue with a Bowie knife and his facility with visual humor ends at the level of the dated "Expose Yourself to Art" poster. Clearly, Richler is treading in unfamiliar territory (he told a Toronto journalist he would be sticking to novels in the future). Joshua is a case of what experts call genre envy...
Travel: Experience traveling, working, studying abroad, should be described explicitly if job-related. It documents experience in adjusting to unfamiliar surroundings. If you decide not to have a travel section, you can mention travel under Personal Background...
...fact, it is Sarah's desertion which provides the cure to Macon's existential homesickness. By the time she comes back desiring her old security and admitting that "some things are worse than boring," it is too late. Having been thrust into unfamiliar territory, Macon has been forced to confront his own restlessness. Sitting in a hotel room, the world-weary traveller idly muses on the idea of calling his next book "The Accidental Tourist At Home." At one point, in lonely desperation, he considers faking a coronary just to feel the soothing touch of a human hand. Tyler...
Aesthetically, the festival has so far proved inspiriting, although some elements fall short of their aims. At once the most impressive and the most frustrating event is the 300-piece exhibit "India!" at New York City's Metropolitan Museum. For visitors unfamiliar with Indian art, the riches and their antiquity are beguiling. The collection is most complete in painting, reflecting Exhibition Curator Stuart Cary Welch's scholarly specialization in Mogul miniatures. They range from court assemblies to bloody scenes of hunting, from frolicsome glimpses of improbably colored animals and gods to sober, documentary official portraits. Among the more memorable...
...noted that the unfamiliar artificial surface of Parsons field probably worked against her squad...