Word: unknown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week into the campaign, the major unknown remained the role of the S.D.P. /Liberal Alliance. Although it has lost ground in the past year, its candidates struck out at both Foot and Thatcher in an attempt to carve out a middle ground between the two sharply polarized major parties. Campaigning last week in Glasgow, Jenkins and Liberal Party Leader David Steel held an innovative public question-and-answer session in Partick Burgh Hall. Steel, a tireless campaigner, views the snap election as a rare opportunity to boost his party's status with the electorate. Conservative campaign advisers have feared...
...time, the record companies provide eye-catching videotapes of artists performing their latest songs. The highly stylized three-to four-minute tapes cost an average of $30,000 to make, but some can run as high as $150,000. The payoff can be huge. Men at Work were unknown before they appeared on MTV a year ago. Shortly afterward, their first album, Business as Usual, appeared on the bestseller charts, where it has remained for 47 weeks...
...winner was Philippe Jeantot, the deep-sea diver from Concarneau, France, who idled across the finish line the day after his 31st birthday. At the start of the race, Jeantot was unknown to the racing world, though he had made four single-handed Atlantic crossings. Yet on the first of the race's four legs, the 7,100-miles from Newport to Cape Town, he piled up a one-week, 1,500-mile lead over his nearest competitor. That was the way it went, around the world; across the southern reaches of the Indian Ocean to Sydney, Australia; through...
Once Heidemann delivered the diaries to Stern--which paid $3.5 million for them to persons unknown--the magazine failed to conduct even rudimentary chemical tests, and instead relied solely upon the word of several historians. And even the historians performed poorly; the volumes contained numerous factual errors that should have been sufficient proof that the diaries were fakes...
...instruction of MOMA, it concentrated on the Northern European modernist painters, leaving the New York branch to deal primarily with the Paris school of modernists. For some years this was a most fruitful setup for the tiny Boston MOMA. Oskar Kokoschka, Edvard Munch, and Georges Rouault were virtually unknown in this country when the ICA first exhibited their work...