Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Such familiar energy lobbyists as the American Petroleum Institute, the Independent Petroleum Association of America and the A.G.A., which represents 33 of the nation's 120 interstate pipeline companies as well as 300 local gas firms, were active, of course. But so were the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, speaking for 70,000 member businesses, and the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, which includes 118 farm and marketing co-ops and 3.5 million farmers. These groups had one overriding concern: they did not want a repetition of last winter's drastic shortage of natural...
...setting, the key characters, even the major prop were familiar. In Courtroom 2 of the federal Courts Building, where the first of the Watergate trials began more than four years ago, Judge John J. Sirica last week presided over the "last major decision I'll have to render in this long, difficult case." Having sentenced 17 Watergaters to prison terms, Sirica was ruling on petitions for leniency from the only ones who are still imprisoned-John Mitchell, H.R. (Bob) Haldeman and John Ehrlichman. At their trial, tape-recorded conversations in the Oval Office had sealed their convictions...
...television's treatment of Lance even more closely resembled those familiar scenes on local news shows where a rape or murder suspect is brought to police headquarters, ducking his way through a mob of hectoring reporters. Those nightly scenes illustrate television's show-biz fascination with action, drama and sadism...
...survey a few years ago revealed that about half of America's male population turned to the sports page of their newspaper before they even looked at the front page. It is somewhat disconcerting to realize that ostensible democracy is stocked with lots of people who are more familiar with the box score of last night's Padres-Astros game than with issues that affect their lives. There is nothing wrong with the sports themselves, but the degree of devotion given them seems meaningless when compared to the exigencies of more temporal problems. In this land of conspicuous consumption, professional...
...confront the imperialistic impulses that led us deeper and deeper into Vietnam, his most timely. Under Wizeman's cold, documentary gaze, American "Zonies" who are zealously protecting our "sovereignty" over the canal appear as a pack of super-patriotic crazies -- absurd if they didn't seem all so familiar...