Word: familiar
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Historically, after graduation, the Class Secretary becomes the key-operating officer of the class. It is important for the Secretary to take an interest in keeping the class together and to be familiar with all that is going on at the University as well as keep the class involved in between reunion activities...
...play that attracted Craig and Jackman is a deceptively modest piece: a 90-minute two-hander in which the British and Australian actors play (flawlessly) a pair of Chicago cops who recount, in alternating monologues, a harrowing chain of events that tears their lifelong friendship apart. The material is familiar to streetwise fans of Hollywood crime films and TV cop shows--the prostitutes and lowlifes, shocking violence and moral compromises faced by cops who patrol the urban jungle. But Huff's vivid, intricately layered script--a mix of straight narration, interlaced commentary and re-created scenes--lifts it far above...
...It’s a great way to learn about the intricacies of different beers. Even those familiar with beer learn about the minutia behind brewing,” he said...
...Ortega seems intent upon illuminating Jackson’s subtleties in “This Is It,” it’s because the director is all too familiar with Jackson’s creative process, having worked with Jackson on his last two world tours. Ortega utilizes split screens to show the barely discernible variations of Jackson’s dancing, jerkily grooving to the same song on three different occasions. He often focuses on his facial expressions—a tense grimace taking shape when something doesn’t sit right with...
...that story isn’t familiar, it might be because the movie came into the world—despite its copious number of gunshots—with a whisper. Opening in theaters right after Columbine, national anti-violent sentiment, combined with poor critical response, led to the shoot ’em up’s release being curtailed to a 1-week stay at only a handful of theaters; essentially, it went straight to video. Since then, however, it has acquired a bit of a cult, assaulting the hearts of adolescent boys and men across America. The film?...