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First we identify with these strangers. The universal emerges out of the unfamiliar and sometimes bizarre particulars and communicates to us. "Guests From Afar" is recognizable as an official reception anywhere. The powdered expressions of "Court Attendants in Procession" don't mask their humanity and individual identity. The thoughts of each belong to the observer out of time, not only the Chinese of their own epoch. Most intimate of all, surprisingly, is another ritual, a formal "Procession to the Towers." In this panoply of costume, only faces speak...
...struggled. We were purified by the rains from heaven and defiled by Northeastern. On last year's injury jinx-- At present writing we're not a team that started thick to begin with. With all these injuries you'd have thought we'd been fighting the Vietnam war. On unfamiliarity--It might help running an unfamiliar course. When you don't know the course, you don't know when you're supposed to get tired...
McCurdy felt both Fitzgibbons and Campbell "didn't run as well as they might have the second mile because they were unfamiliar with the rough terrain," as the harriers had to wend their way through the rock outcroppings that littered the course...
...ensembles, including Boston Musica Viva, Collage, the Celveland String Quartet, the Pro Arte String Quartet, and the Societe de Musique contemporaine du Quebec, will also be appearing. Most of the concerts will be in the Conservatory's venerable Jordan Hall, which should help with acclimatization to even the most unfamiliar sounds...
...Tarkovsky flashes out his film with a bizarre, enigmatic, spirituality that ultimately defies hard and fast explanation. The soulful-eyed women and dreamlike lapes of time the ocean draws from Gibaryan's mind and memory, along with a palet of dewy, pastel colors unfamiliar to Western films, vaguely suggest other film and other motifs, but leave the viewer for the most part unsure and even uneasy...