Word: unheard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This is not exactly an unheard-of condition. Dialing through the less prosperous cable channels late at night, one is likely to find people like James Stewart and Carole Lombard wrestling with it in black and white, with more charming indirection and a lot less self-pity than the new crowd manages. Part of the problem with She's Having a Baby is the lack of old-fashioned grace in its leading performances. Bacon has yet to mature as a comic actor; he is still just a bouncing boy. It is impossible to take his grownup ambitions, therefore the subject...
Lawrence F. Levin '89, a former participant and referee, says, "There are people who don't play but come to cheer for their friends. That was unheard of when I was a freshman...
...West Germany, are now beyond the reach of all but high-ranking officers: the Army registered only 136 BMW owners this year, compared with 1,044 in 1985. The 2 1/2-year waiting period for a Mercedes-Benz has shrunk to six months. "Canceled orders used to be simply unheard of," says Gottfried Plangg, of the firm's NATO sales division. "But now everybody's nixing orders placed when the dollar was high...
Bolstered by a surreptitious 1984 recording of the Chopin Opus 28 Preludes, Feltsman's reputation grew even while he was in musical exile. In the gossipy world of concert music, word of prodigiously gifted Soviets zips along the grapevine allegro vivace; unheard Russians like Feltsman tend to loom large in the imagination of Western audiences eagerly seeking a new pianistic hero. Then reality sets in. For every Vladimir Ashkenazy, a brilliant pianist in both technique and taste, there have been disappointments like the vapid Youri Egorov and the clangorous Lazar Berman...
...build Vega around the proven, off-the-shelf technology of the Venera probes. But he wanted the scientific instruments to be custom designed, even though the expertise was not available within the U.S.S.R. So he recruited scientists from nine countries, including the U.S., to join the project. That was unheard-of in security-conscious Soviet space circles. Recalls Sagdeyev: "Sometimes my opponents, in order to take over, were almost ready to say that I was too much for foreign cooperation. But if you have a belief that what you are doing is right, you can survive difficult times...