Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CHARLIE BUBBLES. Albert Finney proves that he can direct as well as act, but leaves some question as to whether he ought to in this stupefyingly familiar film about a writer who has descended into a hell of modern materialism...
Scott may have been right in his time. But no more. Now a noteworthy and increasing number of Americans are beginning second acts with verve and purpose. Among them are some rather familiar figures: military men, policemen and firemen who reach retirement potential at a relatively early age and apply their knowledge and skill to some new endeavor. They are being joined by a growing number of second-acters who are buoyed by an unprecedented level of savings from good salaries, by the rewards of profit-sharing plans and stock options, by early-retirement programs and by plain guts. They...
...final Yale game is any indication of the future, Gallagher and his fighting teammates should finally lift Harvard out of the all too familiar Ivy basketball cellar next year...
Unfortunately Harvard did another familiar thing at the start of the second half. The Crimson went stone cold, scoring only five points in eight minutes...
...like characterization and motivation are given short shrift on M:I Geller & Co. instead believe in fast plots, dazzling footwork, bizarre technical contrivances. It is always the "how" of a story that keeps viewers pinned to their TV sets, since nearly everything else on the program is deliberately made familiar. At the opening, Peter Graves, 41, as Impossible Mission Leader Jim Phelps, enters a phone booth, warehouse or parked car, finds a hidden tape recorder, and turns it on. "Good morning, Mr. Phelps..." it begins, and then outlines the task: recover something crucial that has been stolen or prevent...