Word: unexpectedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many observers--including the author of the Times piece--see these sudden and unexpected changes and reforms as wholly or primarily symptomatic of Gorbachev's unilateral initiative to "reduce the burdens and the risks" of the East-West confrontation.
The band's history may be pedestrian: Buck and Stipe met in the Athens record store where Buck worked; Berry and Mills, high school friends from Macon, Ga., fell in with the other two when they started school in Athens. Stipe's personal particulars (son of a nonmusical military family...
But remember, this is the NCAA Tournament. Expect the unexpected.
But the intense characterization seems useless when Clara admits that she loves the au pair girl and desperately tries to keep her from returning to Vienna. This unexpected twist is completely alien to the character that Bellow so meticulously created. Nothing earlier in the book prepares the reader for such...
Another time Papandreou had an unexpected idea: Koskotas should purchase the Olympiakos football team. Papandreou, according to Koskotas, wanted the banker to build up the team, so that just before the 1989 election the government would agree to build Olympiakos a new stadium, an announcement certain to be highly popular...