Word: familiarities
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Even in his own country, Ayckbourn has never gotten the critical respect accorded contemporaries such as Tom Stoppard and David Hare. They write "important" plays about political issues or nuclear physics or Russian intellectuals. Ayckbourn's realm is more familiar: the domestic and romantic trials of modern middle-class Brits. Yet no one has probed more acutely, or with a finer balance of laughter and pain, the sad human comedy behind these tidy surfaces - the inability of people to connect, to see the casual cruelty they inflict on others, to come to terms with their failed illusions, to be happy...
...footage seems familiar, it's probably because you've already seen it for free on television, in the BBC miniseries Planet Earth (repackaged also by the Discovery Channel in the U.S.). Earth was shot alongside Planet Earth, using many of the same crew, in part to cut costs. At least half of what is contained in the Disney film has already been released on the BBC, Discovery Channel and DVDs...
...complex beast that is the American sports culture.While chronicling all the lurid details of this extensive subject would require a senior thesis, there are several intriguing facets of this unique environment worth exploring.First, there is the overwhelming variety of sports in the American mainstream—everything from the familiar-yet-unfamiliar “soccer”, to the strange netherworlds of NASCAR racing, WWE wrestling, and lacrosse. For a British student born and bred on a diet of soccer, what is most startling is the strength of the predominant, so-called “Big Three?...
...since freshman academic advisers are more accustomed to advising their students under the Core Program, they may be more familiar with its workings...
...League, the Crimson (12-9, 4-2 Ivy) hosted No. 73 Brown (18-9, 4-2 Ivy) at home at the Beren Tennis Center on Friday, then traveled to New Haven on Sunday to battle rival No. 64 Yale (13-8, 3-3 Ivy). Against two familiar, higher-ranked enemies, Harvard secured a pair of morale-boosting 5-2 wins.The Crimson’s class of 2009 had another task at hand on Friday: defending their turf one last time in the final home game of the season. Notching a win against the Bears on “Senior Day?...