Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this familiar pattern is allowed to emerge once again, plans for controlling development in Harvard Square could be crippled. And fifteen or twenty years from now, when the resulting chaos becomes painfully apparent, someone will ask the embrrassing question...
...frenetic activity would be familiar to any newsman on any big-city daily. But deadline brings a difference. No presses roll. Show business moves into the newsroom, and lights dim beyond the rim of the desk. The day's debris is shoved off into the shadows. As technicians man their equipment, a makeup expert goes to work on the managing editor. At the last moment he runs a comb through his blond hair, shrugs a neatly pressed jacket over his wrinkled shirtsleeves, and shoots his French cuffs. It is 6:30 p.m. Cameras zero...
...requests to review lower-court decisions involving everything from labels on Swiss cheese to the right of students to sport beards and spurn haircuts. This week as it goes back to work, the court begins hearing oral arguments in three cases that will plunge it right back into a familiar miasma-obscenity...
...result is really a recital rather than a play. On a bleacher-sloped stage, the survivors and the accused confront not so much each other as their own benumbed memories of demonic events. The accused deny all responsibility, using the familiar argument that they were merely carrying out orders. The survivors, like men risen from the Inferno, recount horrors that, however familiar they may have become, still beggar the imagination with the terrible knowledge of what man can do to man. Those who lived draw word pictures of those who died: women whose wombs were injected with cement till they...
...probably seen still photographs of interiors of rooms where the ceiling seemed to go up, especially if you're familiar with the room. It was on this basis that I'd gotten them to devise this movement. It's a changing of perspective from the normal to the abnormal -- from the normal of a 50mm lens to the abnormal of the 22mm...