Word: unfamiliar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...though the language of Riddley Walker is unfamiliar, the story it tells rings with unmistakable urgency. Riddley runs away from his "crowd"--his community of foragers--and becomes unwittingly drawn in to Goodparley's obsessive quest to regain the technology of explosives. Tantalized by the legendary ability of man before the flash to build "boats in the air and picters on the wind," Goodparley determines to recreate the power that created these mysteries; when he meets Riddley, he thinks he has found the first breakthrough: the ingredients of gunpowder...
Muddy terrain, a constant downpour, and the harriers' discomfort with the unfamiliar course made for some rather unimpressive performances...
...squad. LAMARR FLATT--who saw lots of action his freshman year in the 1979-80 season, but who spent last year away from the hardcourt--is back. Senior DAVE KOHN opted not to try out this season, but he was up on the fourth floor anyway, in the unfamiliar garb of a member of the coaching staff. Kohn will help newly hired assistant coach JOE ROGERS with the junior varsity squad. Rogers--who graduated from Boston College last May--joined the 60 Boylston crowd last week, signing on as director of sports promotions in addition to the hoop...
...NOTE BOOK: The water polo team received a warm welcome upon its return to Cambridge Saturday night at 10:30. Senior Tim Maximoff, unfamiliar with Cambridge roads, created a minor traffic jam by accidentally driving the team van up Dunster Street--a one-way street--the wrong...
This is a Truman Capote unfamiliar to the readers of Music for Chameleons. Guileless, yet frivolous, self-absorbed, yet generous, Capote through his 20's and early 30's flits heedlessly from lover to lover, from New York to the South, from Ischia to the Continent, returning infrequently to the States, but always writing--a peripatetic dynamo...