Word: familiarizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Student Assembly elections are being held today, and for the modern "Prince" there is a familiar dilemma: by what means shall he seek power...
American-made Kent cigarettes, in their familiar white package, have become a form of alternative currency in President Nicolae Ceauşescu's Socialist Republic. Diplomats and foreign visitors use them as tips or to consummate business as well as sexual deals. Nor do the cigarettes immediately go up in smoke. Instead, they are traded back and forth by Rumanians, who prize them as a luxury item. The street price is three times the $1.10 cost per pack in the special dollar shops run for foreigners. "It's a startling feature of life here," says one Western diplomat...
...futuristic society that worships a deadly game with indecipherable rules. Quintet appears to be a shotgun marriage between backgammon and Russian roulette. The hero (Paul Newman instead of James Caan) is trying to beat the game before he becomes its bloodied victim. Yet the plot is so familiar that the audience figures out the moves at least an hour before the characters do. By the time the inevitable climax finally arrives, most moviegoers may wish they had stayed at home to watch a truly exciting sport-like, say, The $20,000 Pyramid...
When he made that famous forecast in The American Challenge a decade ago, the French publisher and pop economist Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber voiced a familiar European fear: that U.S. industry, armed with a strong dollar and high technological and marketing prowess, was rapidly turning Western Europe into a sort of American commercial romper room. So much for that worry. What now seems to rouse European passions is not the threat of a Yankee invasion but the prospect of a disruptive retreat...
...judicious, more the neat excision of a few lines here and there than the slaughter of whole scenes, a violence often done to Shakespeare. With some notable exceptions, the performances range from competent to brilliant, and a whole stable of Britain's fine character actors trot through the familiar minor parts: John Gielgud as the righteous John of Gaunt, Celia Johnson as Juliet's nurse and Michael Hordern as her father...