Word: unfamiliar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...history," said the Toronto Star, "probably no man has entered the prime ministry so untried, so unfamiliar, so formless in his policies, yet so capable of capturing the imagination of so many Canadians." As he took over the leadership of the Liberal Party from Lester Pearson and prepared to succeed him as Canada's 15th Prime Minister next week, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 48, began slowly to give his policies a little more form-and himself something of a new image...
...Choctaw Indians who invented it, lacrosse was a contest of skill and guts. To an unfamiliar spectator today, it is a game where the players try harder to decapitate one another with webbed sticks than to score goals...
KUBRICK'S dilemma in terms of satisfying an audience is that his best work in 2001 is plotless slow-paced material, an always successful creation of often ritualistic behavior of apes, men, and machines with whom we are totally unfamiliar. In the longer version, the opening of Astronaut Poole's (Gary Lockwood) pod scene is shot identically to the preceding pod scene with Astronaut Bowman (Keir Dullea), stressing standardized operational method by duplicating camera setups. This laborious preparation may appear initially repetitive until Poole's computer-controlled pod turns on him and murders him in space, thus justifying the prior...
...audience realizes it has been under a spell inside Borges' imagination in a suspended moment before the instantaneously enthusiastic, unanimously venerative applause. Even those unfamiliar with his work and reputation experience the Borges magic. One little Cambridge lady, knowing something had happened but unsure what it was, bubbled after the fourth lecture. "Is that the man that was speaking? Is he Swedish or English or what? Oh, he's so wonderful...
...least attractive side and start off offending a substantial portion of the electorate. By throwing his support behind McCarthy, he can avoid the onus of opportunism, and add his proven abilities as an organizer in familiar surroundings to McCarthy's equally proven abilities as a campaigner in unfamiliar ones. Their potentials can be fused in a way they could not be with Kennedy the candidate...