Word: unknowns
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...Marketa Irglova performed—and later won the Oscar for—their tune “Falling Slowly” from “Once,” the show became for a moment genuinely entertaining—and from a musical number, no less! These hitherto unknown artists performed their song without pomp or circumstance and delivered the most earnest and hopeful acceptance speech at the ceremony. But what made that moment so special was that it was so anti-Oscar. Indeed the rest of the ceremony left me entirely spent. I felt like Daniel Day-Lewis...
...reason, central banks must stand ready, in the case of a potential systemic risk of this kind, to step in as lender of last resort to shore up the failed bank until the crisis can be resolved. In return, banks have to submit to a degree of official supervision unknown to other businesses in a market economy...
...Officers were dispatched to Lowell House to take report of suspicious activity. Officer arrived and spoke to the reporting party who stated that an unknown individual(s) placed feces in their desk drawer. There were no suspicious individuals seen in the area at the time of the incident...
...Baggage” is a good euphemism for lack of concrete data on which to pass judgement. Because Obama is a relative unknown, he can represent all forms of hope and change to all people. As a poster commented on Obama’s YouTube response to Bush’s last State of the Union Address: “Lets all remember that it was Obama that brought about the campaign of Hope and Change. I have never been this excited about the posibility of true political change. It’s time to fundamentally change this country?...
...intervention. For nearly an hour and a half, the camera follows a man who searches for a woman named Sylvia, whom he saw in the city six years ago. “All men, including those happily married with children, [remember] the day in which [they] saw an unknown woman crossing the street,” Guerín said in the question and answer session after the screening. He could be “a painter, maybe a poet, maybe a filmmaker.” “Sylvia” is filled with such uncertainties, perhaps because...