Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...weather is just the sort of thing I like. What can I say? Cold and bright, dark and drizzly, thunder and lightning, hot sun and still air--the heavens can open up and give me anything they've got. Weather is wonderfully evocative, like an old song or a familiar smell. Hot, breezy sunshine transports me to my grandparents' house in southern California, and each clear, crackling autumn day calls up every back-to-school shopping trip I've ever taken...
...both with an inflexible social system and their own weaknesses. With two earlier collections of stories and a novella, Ha Jin attracted notice as a guide to a world few outside China know. His first novel, which has been nominated for a National Book Award, makes local color intimately familiar...
Authorities and students described the suspects as fitting the now familiar stereotype of alienated teens. "They were known as the stoner types," says Melissa Oliver, 17, a white senior at the school. "They would wear clown makeup all over their eyes, dog collars and big old dirty pants. They were all white; they were loner types...
...band was nearly twice as large as today's group, with all the young men returning home from the war. In those days, members wore bright red jackets and ties over white pants with a red stripe. Five years after Segal began marching, the band sported its now familiar crimson jackets...
...Year's had passed, and the special quality of the turn of the millennium had ended. My feet were tired from a long night of standing. As my friend and I left, I scanned the crowd once more. They too had lost something; their faces once more became the familiar high-school mix of invincibility and vulnerability...