Word: familiarizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rest of the novel is an intricate elaboration designed to show Homer the error of this decision. Irving gives the orphan an escape from St. Cloud's in the persons of Wally Worthington and Candy Kendall, a glittering couple who come to St. Cloud's for a familiar reason. Wally will someday inherit Ocean View Orchards, a thriving apple farm just off the Maine seacoast, and Candy will someday marry him, once Dr. Larch terminates the symptom of their careless passion...
...only existing pictures of her mother and spouse. Nadine Fosky, 22, "lost, quite simply, everything." Clothes. School papers. Her special Buddhist chanting scroll. She anguished over it all -- even over the very special scent of her house. Said she: "Someone said that a house takes on a certain familiar smell of a family over the years, and that once it's lost it takes years to get it back...
When a savings and loan crisis hit Maryland last week, depositors knew all too well what to do. They gathered up their lawn chairs, thermos bottles and portable radios and lined up outside the banks as if they were embarking on a familiar American outing. In a sense, they were. Only two months ago, depositors across the U.S. witnessed scenes right out of the Great Depression during a panic that temporarily shut down Ohio's 69 privately insured thrifts. At the time, Governor Richard Celeste warned several other states that they should prepare for similar events. "You're sitting...
...this has a familiar ring it is because Allende has self-consciously modeled her novel on Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, a four-generation family chronicle set in a nonexistent town. Allende's Rosa the Beautiful is obviously a stand-in for Garcia Marquez's Remedios the Beauty, famed for her spectacular ascension to heaven with the family laundry. The job-hopping Nicolas in The House of the Spirits doubles for One Hundred Years' mad inventor, Jose Arcadio Buendia, who strives to manufacture the philosophers' stone and photograph...
...image of journalists as a hard-drinking tribe is almost wearisomely familiar. It has been reinforced in books and movies by characters from Jake Barnes, the hard-boiled news correspondent of Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, to Lew Marsh, the boozing reporter that James Cagney plays in the 1951 film Come Fill the Cup. Even TV's Lou Grant & Co. regularly restored their spirits with spirits at the local hangout...