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...Reporter-Researcher Raissa Silverman in the magazine's Law section. This fall Thomas will move to TIME'S Washington bureau to cover what Correspondent Brew calls "the most underreported branch of Government - the Judiciary." Says former Defendant Thomas of his new assignment: "The subject is not exactly unfamiliar...
Good as he is at time warps, the playwright is unfamiliar with straight razors. That explains the patches of tissue on Reeve's puss in the picture...
...various films are so firmly imprinted on our minds that it is almost impossible not to filter the events and images of the book through the more familiar ones of the films. We are apt to distort the novel to fit a familiar mold, miss what is fresh or unfamiliar...
...life, specifically his Scots Calvinist origin with its severe strictures against wine and wenching. For Boswell, the embodiment of this authority was his father, the eighth Lord Auchinleck, a straitlaced, unaffectionate parent and a distinguished jurist who wore his courtroom robes around the house. The case history is not unfamiliar: son seeks the attention of the remote, puritanical father by challenging his values; one thing leads to another; guilt accrues; activities detrimental to health and welfare are pursued; the harmful consequences become a form of self-punishment...
...scene had a passing resemblance to Semi-Tough: bedecked in formal duds rather than football pads, premier Pittsburgh Steeler Wide Receiver Lynn Swann, 27, ran an unfamiliar pattern down the aisle of Hollywood's United Methodist Church to wed a comely model and Santa Monica College student, Bernadette Robi, 21, with assistance from beaming teammates and friends like Franco Harris, O.J. Simpson and Sam ("Bam") Cunningham. As part of the mostly traditional ceremony, Swann, who writes poetry on the sidelines, recited one ditty composed for his bride ("My soul is your soul and time is our instrument to build...