Word: familiarizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...phantasm of popular "culture" evoked by Blonsky's associations plays on the familiar theme of America the Bland...
...performances by Lemmon and Mastroianni are solid but not overwhelming. Lemmon's style of acting is so familiar as to be monotonous, like canned spaghetti, and Mastroianni comes nowhere near to being the wild Italian he is advertised as. Instead, he resembles the meatball on Lemmon's noodles...
More than that, the director is practically expected to justify his choice of such a well-known play by coming up with a production of extraordinary classical quality or, as an alternative, creating a production of such innovation that the audience finds itself looking at a familiar piece in an entirely new light...
When Bunting and Wilkinson do go out on a stake-out together as the book concludes, the author approaches the more familiar ground of the Midnights chronicles. But the effort is abortive, the incident doesn't amount to much and leaves the reader teased and frustrated and no more satisfied...
...fantastic! I can't conceive of it!" exclaimed Klaus von Klitzing last week. The inconceivable, however, has long been familiar territory to the Polish-born, 42-year-old director of the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, in Stuttgart, West Germany: the mind-boggling field of quantum mechanics is his special ground. This year, taking note of Von Klitzing's quantized Hall effect, an application of quantum theory's abstruse axioms to the more mundane field of commercial electronics, the Nobel Committee named him physics laureate. Said the boyish-looking father of three: "I've always wanted to answer...