Word: unfamiliarly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...patterns of light and dark -- the shine of a nose, the line of a mouth -- that suggest the presence of a face. A computer then makes more detailed scans at higher and higher resolutions, trying to match facial features to those of family members stored in its memory. (An unfamiliar face would be recorded as a "visitor.") When the machine makes a match, the information is sent by phone lines to Nielsen's central ratings computer, and then to subscribers...
...when Pons and Fleischmann claimed that they had achieved fusion at room temperature with relatively inexpensive equipment, the two scientists were cast in an unfamiliar role--that of celebrities...
...response to criticism that I extended examples of Asian-American organizations to represent all minority groups, I will grant that I wrote from personal experience and the experience of friends. But it is not that I am unfamiliar with other minority organizations; I simply did not feel comfortable including examples that I became aware of indirectly. I never intended to imply that segregation of other minority groups is identical to that of Asian students' organizations...
...contemporary standards the Clemmonses are a messed-up conventional family. But how parents and siblings interact during the children's crucial teen years is conveyed in ways that may be unfamiliar. Chase subordinates plot to an arrangement of domestic crises and adolescent rituals. The passage of time is more impressionistic than chronological. Points of view are fluid and exclusively female. The wolves of the title are the male characters, whose sex drives are less complicated than those of the Clemmons girls or their stepmother. Men seem interested in only one thing, or at least in one thing at a time...
...course was summoned and arrived half an hour later. He identified two or three symbols on the exam for the proctor and then left. Unfortunately the exam contained many more elementary notations which he presumably expected the proctor to know but with which the proctor was in fact unfamiliar. The examination was further disrupted when, due to a mistake on the part of the scheduling office, we had to move twice to different rooms. Over 90 minutes of time were spent trying to resolve the situation and moving rooms...