Word: familiarizes
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...finish her research before the disease incapacitates her, while also trying to connect with the grown daughter from whom she has always been distant. Fonda gives a graceful if unexciting performance, and the Beethoven music (performed by an onstage pianist) is nice, but the play hits nothing but familiar chords. (Read "Is West Side Story Overrated...
...sure how you can take seriously a play whose comic coup de théâtre (it gets uproarious laughter) is a scene of projectile vomiting. But it's typical of Reza's quest for easy laughs at the expense of her superficially serious theme: the familiar one that civilized upper-middle-class people are really barbarians underneath. The unsavory revelations that emerge during the play's one long scene (e.g., one dad secretly got rid of his kid's pet hamster by turning it loose on the street) are mere contrivances played simply for laughs; I get more insights...
...Clearly, it's not the stars' realignment in a familiar franchise that pulled in the mobs - nor the mass audience's need to go out with their friends and see the nominally new version of a picture they liked a few years back on the big screen. This fact alone should hearten industry people fretful that their target demographic will soon desert the big screen for smaller ones, with their new-millennial lure of downloads and DVDs. F&F proves there's no significant change in the basic impulse of young moviegoers: escape from Planet Home...
Although Saretsky appreciated the opportunity for individuals to post strong times in a relaxed environment, the head coach placed particular emphasis on the chance to become familiar with Penn’s track, which will host the Ivy league’s biggest race...
...could long survive bearing the weight of the name of this then-unknown titan of entertainment. And, in fact, it came crashing down. When word finally spread from the Senior Class Committee that the elected speaker would be Matt Lauer, some laughed and some cried. His name sounded vaguely familiar to us, so we keyed up Wikipedia and YouTube to recall the accomplishments of this luminary, whoever he was. This was a mere halt though; after a thorough review of his credentials—and glowing testaments of his charm from local Cambridge housewives—the current anchor...