Pubs made a setting ideal for secrecy, murky as a pint of mild, but also open to the unexpected: the bang of the door, the stranger entering, the sudden galvanising piece of news.The provision of drink to all-comers was a task both sacred and profane, and pubs reflected that dangerous ambiguity.
The second was Mad cow disease in the United Kingdom then in France, followed by new variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob human epidemics, paradigmatic food safety crisis bringing together the poles of production (beef and meat-and-bone meal) and consumption, and leading to an unexpected social bang.
Song: Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang.
It is a potent cocktail; I have blundered around, banging my head against unexpected emotions for months.
Because public company executives now use only quarterly earnings calls to disseminate information, when the news is unexpected, it hits the market with a bang.
Cosmologists now have fairly precise and accurate measurements of many of the parameters of the Big Bang model, and have made the unexpected discovery that the expansion of the Universe appears to be accelerating.
By taking matter to states we have never observed before - the LHC's collisions create temperatures not seen since moments after the Big Bang - physicists hope to find something unexpected that addresses some of these questions.
For his guest appearance as himself on "The Big Bang Theory," James Earl Jones went in a completely unexpected direction.
The pattern confirms the Big Bang theory for the origin of the Universe but subtle, unexpected details will require scientists to adjust some of their ideas.
The suggestion is that the rings - representing unexpected order in a vast sky of disorder - represent pre-Big Bang events, toward the end of the last "aeon".
