Watching the Gob Squad in the streets, moving like flat-footed dancers through a cosmos they were unfamiliar with, thus punctuating our unfamiliarity and familiarity with the city simultaneously, we thought of what Berliners might have felt looking at the film "People on Sunday" when it was released in 1930.
The doorman made no fuss at all, just saying, 'Ah, hello, Mr Beckett'".Mr Asmus says that he and the cast had made a decision to speak more slowly than usual, in deference to Beckett's assumed unfamiliarity with German.
Not for nothing is the city now looking for its 12th chancellor in 20 years, an average tenure well below the nationwide average for large urban school systems.It is not just the all-too-familiar problems of urban poverty and unfamiliarity with the English language, or that the job may be too big New York has 1,100 schools for any individual to run effectively.
And its discovery throws into question the received wisdom about one important aspect of climate change, namely how much carbon from the atmosphere ends up at the bottom of the sea.Despite their unfamiliarity to most people, thaliaceans (a colony of which is pictured) are abundant creatures in many parts of the ocean.
Given the unfamiliarity of other countries' currencies that is not, perhaps, surprising.
It may have been unfamiliarity with the currency itself, rather than with its face value, which caused price gouging (or, at least, allegations of price gouging) when the euro was introduced.
FARQUHARSONMerrill LynchInvestment ManagersLondonDishonest IndiansSIR You betray an unfamiliarity with both American political correctness and the politics of victimhood in your simplistic depiction of the interest of Native American tribes in claiming the remains of Kennewick Man ("Boneheaded", September 30th).
Even HSBC, a British bank with a sterling reputation, ingrained prudence and a history of astute acquisitions has stumbled in recent years when entering markets where unfamiliarity prevented it from bringing these traits to bear.
Yet any mathematician will immediately recognize the argument as mathematical, while people without mathematical training will probably find difficulty in following the argument, though not because of unfamiliarity with the subject matter.
With money, it seems, it is not familiarity, but unfamiliarity that breeds contempt.
Their wariness of the idea was rooted in unfamiliarity.
