Word: unheard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...whole seasons that turn out to be dreams, it is hard to tell the parody from the real goods. Fresno tries to toss stink bombs at a genre that is probably impervious to anything short of nuclear annihilation. What's more, it does so in a format virtually unheard of on TV: a comedy mini-series. No multiparter has ever managed to sustain laughs for five consecutive nights. On purpose anyway...
...gardists, of course, is nothing new. In 1910 Serge Diaghilev, the flamboyant Russian impresario and leader of the Ballets Russes, brought together Composer Igor Stravinsky and Choreographer Michel Fokine to create The Firebird; and Composer John Cage and Modern Choreographer Merce Cunningham have worked together frequently. Nor is it unheard-of for a rock musician to hang out with the classical avant-garde: Frank Zappa, formerly of the Mothers of Invention, has had his serious chamber works conducted by no less than Pierre Boulez. What distinguishes the SoHo artists is the familiar ease with which their works play...
...Steingrimur Hermannsson, granted emergency powers, commandeered the four largest central hotels. Tourists on an Icelandair promotion package were ordered to clear out early. That opened up space for only 916 visitors, but again entrepreneurial Icelanders promptly filled the gap. Houses and apartments in central Reykjavik were renting for an unheard of $6,000 to $7,000 for the summit week. "This is a chance of a lifetime," said one woman. "I'd much rather be in Majorca anyway." The Soviet Union plans to solve the space crunch by sending one or more cruise ships to Reykjavik harbor...
...marauding U.S., Japanese or French financial institutions. Pinstripe City men who have known each other since Oxford or Cambridge days are rubbing shoulders with rough-and-tumble stock traders who sport little of the old-school polish but plenty of the street savvy that has suddenly become worth unheard-of six-figure salaries. Unable to contain the activity, the City is bursting at the seams, as rapidly expanding investment houses sprawl farther along the Thames into London's formerly dreary docklands...
Unsuspected encounters with Harvard professors are not unheard of either, due to the fact that a large percentage of them own or rent houses on Martha's Vineyard for the summer. The Island is a great place to get sick, as well as one in which to search out a potential thesis advisor. Drive into the parking lot of any beach and you're liable to find more M.D. plates than in the parking lot of Mass. General Hospital...