Word: unfamiliar
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...come to America Rahman did, knowing that the country was unfamiliar not only with his name and achievements but with South Asian musical vocabulary. That didn't faze him; he'd united disparate cultures before. "When I started in '92," he told Lina, "Indian film music was very segmented. This made me take a film song and produce it in such a way that it would go beyond language or culture. That worked because, basically, I'm from South India [the Tamil capital of Madras]. It worked across North India [Bombay, Calcutta, New Delhi, etc.], which is a completely different...
...liberal substitution and an unfamiliar lineup led to a dry spell that lasted nearly five minutes...
...advertising giant Young & Rubicam Brands was married with a child before she graduated from college, and retired from running a Kraft Foods business with $5 billion in sales annually before she hit 50. She left her hiatus last year to take over Y&R--and step into an unfamiliar industry in flux. Time was, a 30-second TV spot trumped all. But in today's world of fragmented media, commercial cutters like TiVo, and exponentially more goods and services vying for consumer attention, the old rules don't apply. Fudge's plan: to remake Y&R into a client-centric...
...prepare for February’s competition, Harvard will undergo an intense practice schedule throughout reading period and finals, culminating in a training trip to San Francisco over the intersession break. The Crimson will get a chance to hone its skills against unfamiliar club teams and male opponents, and be, as Hendricks said, “totally saturated with squash...
...surprisingly, Charlotte Simmons is the focus of the novel, and her jarring introduction to college life mirrors the surprise Wolfe hopes many readers unfamiliar with the subject will feel. The brainiac brunette from the tiny town of Sparta, in North Carolina’s Alleghany County, is so sheltered in her books and her quaint family life that she has never tasted alcohol, danced, or (we are expected to believe), learned the very first thing about sex. This is because, according to Wolfe, her mother abhorred the subject and—as we all know—parents are where...