Word: unheard
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Coupling the two shows is by no means unheard of, and one director recently combined the two into a six-hour marathon. It is still a winning combination, carried out smoothly by the BSC. Most of the cast is identical for the two shows, with the disappointing exception of Hamlet himself, and selected routines evoke one show in the midst of another--notably, the first entrance of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in Hamlet, in which the two, with more snap and individuality than such small parts would otherwise command, silently go through one of Stoppard's coin-flipping routines...
...world for months. Stock values in the U.S. could weaken still further in the weeks ahead. A key reason is the towering cost of money. Although some interest rates fell slightly last week, the yield on risk-free, 30-year U.S. Treasury bonds went briefly last week to an unheard-of 15.32%. With bonds paying those rates and money-market funds giving 17% interest, few people are in a hurry to invest in common stocks...
...other words, during the periods when the operators are busiest calls can take a long, long time to be answered--19 or 20 rings is not unheard of. Often, the result is that the operators are treated to a good measure of Harvard's finest invective...
PASOK has been able to cash in on Greece's social and economic troubles. The country's current rulers look weak, in part because extremist violence has climbed sharply in recent months, with a heretofore unheard-of wave of politically inspired department-store firebombings and arsonist attacks...
...themselves as civilized, no longer have the slightest tolerance for ice cream ordinaire. An unpresumptuous little chocolate ripple does not interest them; they want presumption. And to say that they are willing to pay ruinous prices for it-$7 a quart for hand-packed ice cream is not unheard of-is to understate the case. They demand the right to pay these prices...