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Word: familiarizes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Stockholm's Stock Exchange building to learn the winner of this year's Nobel Prize for Literature were once more caught off guard. Naguib who? The answer: Mahfouz, a 76-year-old Egyptian novelist, playwright and film writer. If the choice was predictably unpredictable, the selection procedure seemed familiar. The Swedish Academy again paddled out of the mainstream, this time heading up the Nile to honor the first Arabic writer in the 87-year history of the prize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Naguib Mahfouz : A Dickens of the Cairo Cafes | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

ALBERTO GIACOMETTI 1901-1966, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington. The paintings, drawings and familiar elongated sculptures of the great Swiss-born modernist. Through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Oct. 24, 1988 | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

...SERVICE (HBO, Oct. 20, 23, 26, 29). A TV station tries to boost its ratings by teaming a veteran newscaster (Paul Dooley) with a shallow young co- host (Griffin Dunne). Familiar TV satire given some trenchant new twists by playwright Howard Korder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Oct. 24, 1988 | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

Andy Sudduth '83 had a tough time of it in the Seoul Olympics, but he has been invincible in the Championship Singles the last four years and should fare well on the familiar Cambridge waters. Cari Graves, former head coach of Radcliffe Crew and perhaps the greatest oarswoman the U.S. has ever produced, will be rowing in the "1980 Rowing Club." Graves, who won a gold medal in the Eights in Los Angeles, will join several members of the U.S. women's 1980 Olympic rowing team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Well-Loved, Well-Attended Event | 10/22/1988 | See Source »

...couple of weeks ago, Rajballie moved from his familiar role of right midfielder to the new role of left wing. He assumed this unfamiliar role, saying, "there really isn't much of an adjustment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Consistency | 10/20/1988 | See Source »

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