Word: familiarization
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...result of NBC’s general slide, the rise of internet TV, or simply just a drop in quality. But these may merely be secondary factors, since FOX’s “House” premiered in 2004.For those who aren’t familiar with the show, it follows Dr. Gregory House (played by Hugh Laurie) as he solves ridiculous, though basically factual, medical mysteries at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital. Although presumably entertaining for those interested in dumbed-down medical horror stories, “House” and the expectations it builds with its audience...
...eyebrow-raising move. It creates expectations. The artist better deliver an album with a rare vibrancy, creativity, and intelligence, if not a record that rejuvenates hip-hop from the underground to the Top-40, from the street corner to the dance floor. An album with longevity. Q-Tip is familiar with the great hip-hop album. Within the genre, the man is a legend. As a member of much-beloved A Tribe Called Quest, Q-Tip contributed to albums like “The Low End Theory” and “Midnight Marauders?...
...paused before a mirror, and beamed at the picture of poetry and health that glowed back at him.“Before, I only smiled. Now, I laugh.” He looked at his reflection and laughed. His cheeks flushed, to his great satisfaction.Frederick felt the familiar spiritual lightness spreading out from the back of his knees. This had been happening at regular intervals ever since he and Roxanna had saved one another in the swirling river currents. He sank to his knees and began to pray.Visions of heavenly grace intermingled in his great brain with images of Roxanna...
...late David Foster Wallace's "How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart," an extended review of Austin's Beyond Center Court: My Story collected in Wallace's Consider the Lobster.) And they have a funny mirrors-within-mirrors, mise-en-abyme effect: they pull back the smooth glossy surface of familiar images and show us the rough, grainy verso. Despite being outside the boundaries of anything remotely resembling literary quality, Moore's book delivers on both counts...
...familiar refrain across Ireland. After more than a decade of runaway growth, the good times have ended. In September the Celtic Tiger, the best performing economy in the euro zone by some stretch in recent years, became the bloc's first to officially slide into recession. After expanding at three times the E.U. average between 1996 and 2007, Ireland's economy is expected to shrink by 0.75% next year, according to government predictions...