Word: familiarizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Robert C. Bergenheim, a member of the board of trustees, said the trustees delayed ratification of the contract because they were not familiar with the exact terms their negotiators had agreed upon, and because they wanted to clarify some issues...
Seven tracks on Swindle exemplify this refurbishing of old hits. Rotten is in prime sneering form, fairly spitting out the three syllables of old Who warhorse "Substitute," bringing a feral edge to Boyce and Hart's familiar "Stepping Stone" and Faces standard "Whatcha Gonna Do About It." These old songs, worn by rehearing and rote performance, take on a new quality, derived from Rotten's conviction that they really matter, at least to him. Sid Vicious contributes two sock-hop numbers--"Something Else" and "C'mon Everybody"--and a rollicking remake of "Rock Around the Clock." Punk rock wants...
People are familiar with the circumstances that produce "world food crisis" headlines in the early 1970's: several major crop failures, problems in the Green Revolution, program cutbacks in grain production in the U.S., Canada, and Australia. The U.S. dollar was devalued, causing increased demand for exports of feed grains and soybean meal. OPEC was formed, oil prices tripled, and fertilizer prices went up. The American consumer felt the pinch. Food costs more...
When it was time for "Alice," 19, a beautician trainee, to leave her favorite neighborhood bar in Detroit, she would occasionally accept a ride home from men. One night last December a fellow with a familiar face offered her a lift, so she hopped into his car. He promptly pulled a gun and took her to his house. There he and three other men hit her a few times, then raped...
Fiction within fiction is an old form, predating Chaucer, Boccaccio and perhaps even Scheherazade, who provided the first law of storytelling: enchant or perish. Author Wain seems familiar with the rewards and risks of laminating two tales. Wain may not achieve the iridescences of Vladimir Nabokov, modern master of the technique, but he moves from one story to the other without draining color from either. One reason is Giles' ability to regard himself as a character. His comments when both he and his fictional doppelgänger love and lose: "He had been able to contemplate the story...