Memory is often made out of doing surprising things.
"You rarely see singers do surprising things onstage, as actors more often do," she said.
"We are proud of our historic collection but we also want to do surprising things.
The hope had been that Kim Jong Un, the country's pudgy young leader, who has done surprising things such as holding hands with his wife in public, might reverse the nuclear course of his father, Kim Jong Il.
At the Whitney, a tribute video by the archivist, curator, and visual artist Cori Olinghouse included passages of astonishing virtuosity, speed, and strength, in which Brown did surprising things, like collapse slowly from a handstand to the floor, roll, flip, and pop up again, as if it were the simplest thing in the world.
Juliet Stevenson presented the award to the director, remembering that for his film Drowning by Numbers she swam in freezing water, did "surprising things with an ice lolly" and "had to push a large naked woman in a wheelbarrow up a slippery slope in five-inch heels".
His authentic self is always so taken up with the immediate that he is quite unconcerned with glorifying his part in defending his country, and much more interested in conveying the texture and character of the world in which he is perpetually meeting new and exciting people and hearing and doing surprising things".
In an attempt to offset brain drain to the United States, some foreign governments are doing surprising things, like sponsoring research in the United States so that visiting scientists in those labs can observe, participate, and take what they learn back home.
'Hell, no.' For a man comprehensively versed in interview technique, platitudes and well-rehearsed soundbites, Timberlake does say surprising things.
