Word: familiarizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...FROM KENSINGTON by Muriel Spark (Houghton Mifflin; $17.95). A beguiling widow's fictional progress over two familiar Spark terrains: the London publishing world and the battleground between innocence and corruption...
...from jaded codgers. What former New York Stock Exchange Chairman Bernard J. ("Bunny") Lasker said just before the bull market of the mid-'70s would be true enough in the '80s: "I can feel it coming, SEC or not, a whole new round of disastrous speculation, with all the familiar stages in order -- blue-chip boom, then a fad for secondary issues, then an over-the-counter play, then another garbage market in new issues, and finally the inevitable crash...
Close your eyes the next time Bentsen speaks in Atlanta this week. Voice sound familiar? You've heard it before somewhere...
...take the first humans to Mars. After more than a year of construction, the million- pound, ungainly looking spacecraft is ready. With a crew of eight, it separates from the space station and heads for Mars, following the Hohmann ellipse, a space trajectory that may one day be as familiar as a great-circle route over the North Atlantic...
...good day. Just as I finished a second cup of coffee, an editor called me, requesting some fixes on a story. As we discussed the changes, my mind began to transmogrify. His familiar visage took on the horrible features of Tezcatlipoca, Mexico's evil magician-god with blazing eyes and slobbering tongue. If one encounters this dreadful apparition, legend has it, one's only hope is to thrust a hand into the god's bloody chest cavity and seize its palpitating heart...