Word: unfamiliarly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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NASA's long-range television cameras had been following Challenger's shiny * white rocket plume, recording the graceful roll that had awed the spectators. But then the cameras caught an ominously unfamiliar sight, imperceptible to those below. However different those photographs later looked to viewers of the endless taped replays, NASA analysts said that an orange glow had first flickered just past the center of the orbiter, between the shuttle's belly and the adjacent external tank. This was near the point where the tank is attached to Challenger. Milliseconds later, the fire had flared out and danced upward. Suddenly...
...Hines, 39, fresh from good reviews in White Nights with Co-Star Mikhail Baryshnikov, has no fancy footwork to fall back on this time out. "I feel most confident dancing," he admits, "though I've grown more comfortable acting in the past few years." Crystal, 38, is also in unfamiliar territory; this is his first movie after moving on from Saturday Night Live. Says he: "I keep asking Gregory if I'm funnier than Baryshnikov...
...STUDENTS' PERFORMANCE of Hamlet in an unfamiliar language--English--makes their acting and dialogue purposely stilted. The result is an hilarious version of the Shakespearean play. Fox Major, played by Wood Foster, is wonderful as the gangly-legged Hamlet and constantly mistakes meanings of words--for example, by holding up three fingers when he counts...
Despite the unfamiliar turf, Harvard had several scoring opportunities...
Eliot Bridge: bridge just upstream from Harvard that is the site of the most notorious crashes at the Head. The twisting river has little mercy for coxs unfamiliar with its hairpin turns and bridge arches...