Word: familiarizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sailing on the familiar Charles River, the Radcliffe sailing team captured the Atlantic Coast Championships this weekend. With this victory, the Black and White can be considered the best team in the East...
With his sheath of white hair, his bulbous nose and whalelike body, Tip O'Neill is a caricaturist's dream. Over the past decade, cartoonists have made the Speaker of the House almost as familiar an American icon as Uncle Sam. Though Republicans depicted Democrat O'Neill, 73, as the incarnation of bloated liberalism, the Speaker actually stands for something both larger and smaller: the beliefs that Government should help remedy the inequities of society and that a politician should help those in his own backyard. "All politics is local," O'Neill liked to say; he built his career around...
...Sound familiar...
Suppose further, in an example that is probably familiar to some members of our immediate community, that a Black, female Harvard student buying a dress in Bonwit Teller is not a credit card forger. Then she probably has the means to spend that kind of money on clothes. What effect do the preceeding Black characters have on proprietors or store clerks or real estate agents who are not Black? These nonstereotypical Blacks are bothersome to whites and others...
Though the supporting performances are strong, John Cleese is always the dominant presence. His progressive breakdown as his life falls apart around him is perfectly rendered with understated humor, frequently punctuated with deadpan slapstick. Both Python cultists and those less familiar with PBS will be pleased...