Word: familiarizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Saturday's 1-0 loss to Penn at Soldier's Field was as familiar as it was disappointing...
Welles' recollections include not only the famous triumphs but tales about private lives in the world of show business. Like what happened the first time he attempted adultery. The romantic atmosphere was broken when, over the hotel-room radio, he heard himself as the Shadow, asking the familiar and all too relevant question: "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts...
...very close to the high standing he has maintained since 1981. Paradoxically, however, the issue of highest concern to Reagan matters less than ever to voters. When asked about the President's tax-reform plan, not even a quarter of the sample professed to be "very" or "fairly" familiar with it, and of those only 41% voiced support for it, a drop of ten points from three months...
...also wanted an unprejudiced response to her fiction, "to get free of that cage of associations and labels that every established writer has to learn to live inside." This may seem a rather downbeat response to a worldwide reputation, but the point is valid. Lessing's reviewers and readers, familiar with such works as The Golden Notebook and The Four-Gated City, probably do expect every book bearing her name to concern itself with feminism and politics. That is why this new novel is likely to cause considerable consternation and dismay...
...flatness of the people's lives in Wildrose matches the flatness of the film's characters. The small town is populated with a familiar cast of bar sleazes, unemployed drunks, old women watching from their front porches, and male chauvinist breadwinners who insist that a woman's place is in the home. The mine crew, affectionately referred to as "pit-rats", sit around cracking obscene jokes and generally giving June a hard time for doing "a man's work." While sexism is a given condition of the hard lifestyle that June assumes, it is repeatedly a one-sided charge...