Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Houston's triumph is all the more impressive for the odds it bucked. Two years ago, she was an unknown, a background vocalist in a cheerleader's body. Moreover, of her first album's ten cuts, six were ballads. This chanteuse had to fight for air play with hard rockers. The young lady had to stand uncowed in the locker room of macho rock. The soul strutter had to seduce a music audience that anointed few black artists with superstardom...
...often substantially less -- and infinitely more predictable -- than the cost of ((fighting discrimination charges)). In fact, the only losers in the process are the Johnsons of the country, for whom ((a civil rights law)) has been not merely repealed but actually inverted. The irony is that these individuals -- predominantly unknown, unaffluent, unorganized -- suffer this injustice at the hands of a Court fond of thinking itself the champion of the politically impotent...
...were rude, misshapen piles "in which no attempts are made at elegance" and that it was difficult to find a workman who could draw a column correctly. "The genius of architecture seems to have shed its maledictions over this land," he wrote. "The first principles of the art are unknown, and there exists scarcely a model among us sufficiently chaste to give an idea of them...
Helms and the others on the Laird commission did their investigation of what went wrong with security in the old embassy. Then Helms indulged himself just a bit: he made his way to the old KGB building where the enemy had plotted against him. He stood out front, unknown, unchallenged...
What is it about fiber-optic cable? Marine biologists accompanying the repair teams have tried to find out. Along the way, they have learned that sharks generally do not feed below 3,000 ft., thus making it unnecessary to protect cable below that depth. They have also discovered previously unknown species of fish. But they still do not know why the new cable is so appealing. The favored theory: sharks attack the lines after detecting faint electric fields that trigger a feeding reflex. "Who knows why they are attracted to it?" muses Gary Nelson, chief of ichthyology at the American...