Word: familiarizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...soon discovered the decided advantages of my forgetfulness. In my blurred eye, the contest surpassed basketball to become an epic struggle in dream-like quality. Two armies jousted on the court in that hazy texture so familiar from TV. dream sequences...
Confronted with Democratic majorities in Congress and the still unresolved Iran scandal, the President resorts to familiar themes from his glory days. -- Capitol Hill' s new Democratic leaders offer a homespun rebuttal. -- A Senate investigation uncovers "real disarray" in the White House over Iran. -- Small private groups are finding creative solutions to the nation' s housing crisis...
...been done by designers. There were also lyrical bare-midriff gowns and little silk frocks that will be widely copied. One elegant fantasy had a delicate jeweled top and what looked to be an ordinary eyelet skirt, until one realized that the eyelet was sumptuous taffeta instead of the familiar cotton. Even the most flagrant creation can be tamed by omitting the hat or discarding a pound or so of accessories...
...singular achievement of Cambodian Witness, a quiet, devastating memoir of this genocide, is to reveal the faces behind the numbing statistics and, more terrifying, to show how familiar they look. The fanatics who unleashed the bloodbath were usually, it seems, the people next door...
Another TV host propounded a persistent -- and utterly unfounded -- theory that AIDS "was created by the U.S. military and tested on 'undesirables,' who were later released into the general public." That had the familiar ring of a Soviet disinformation campaign that originated last September in the Soviet weekly New Times and has spread as far afield as Zambia and the Philippines in the past six months. Meanwhile, two years after AIDS first hit Japan, Tokyo talk-show panelists were advising viewers to stay away from U.S. servicemen...