Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...studio in a project, in treatment he pumped his fist about how great it felt to be drug free. He was always, consummately, in the moment. And for him, there had been some pretty hairy moments. He had begun doing cocaine about six months before, and in a pattern familiar to most addicts had gradually been increasing his consumption until he was ingesting nearly fatal doses. Desperate to stop, he had had elective heart surgery, reasoning that nobody would be insane enough to do cocaine while recovering from heart surgery. Jay was doing blow within two weeks of his operation...
...forgotten luxuries of home--from high-pressure showers to a working fireplace--and to all its forgotten necessities, like Mom's apple pie. To all the familiar nooks and crannies in our walls, the squeaky doors and creaky floors, the imperfections that make our homecoming perfect. To our parents for leaving our bedroom just the way we left it, thank...
...cleverly descriptive names. For example, of the three more popular Pokemon, Hitokage, a salamander with a ball of fire on its tail, became Charmander; Fushigidane, a dinosaur with a green garlic bulb on its back, became Bulbasaur; and Zenigame, a turtle who squirts water, became Squirtle. Others winked at familiar pop images: the martial-arts Pokemon Hitmonchan and Hitmonlee are tributes to Jackie Chan and Bruce...
...point is numbingly clear, she leaves one last reminder, one last relic of the exhibition's patron saint, by the elevators that take visitors down to the street. There, lined up neatly, is a group of 10 small Warhol silkscreens. In neon-bright inks on contrasting fields, a familiar symbol is emblazoned again and again. Dollar signs...
Then comes the feature, and charm is replaced by the dull treatment of a way-too-familiar scenario. As in the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun, an evil genius lords it over a mountainous island patrolled by a supermonster. The monster here is Mewtwo, a kitty clone or copycat of cuddly Mew. And as in Toy Story, the old-fashioned toys (like Mew) have to teach the mechanized ones (like Two) a bit about human values...