Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Year of the Black Relationship, since both Time and Newsweek wrote on that subject. Baldwin thinks so too. His newest novel, Just Above My Head, scrutinizes almost every possible variation of the black love relationship, homosexual to conjugal to incestuous to fraternal, while simultaneously indulging Baldwin's familiar obsession with the black church. His approach produces an odd melange of eroticism and spiritualism, which seems to alternate between embarrassing explicitness and slightly cloying romanticism. However, the book as a whole testifies to the author's considerable talent as chronicler of several decades of Afro-American cultural growth and change...
...stability can be traced to lurching shifts in leadership that involve the country's two top politicians, Bülent Ecevit, head of the Republican People's Party, and Suleyman Demirel, leader of the Justice Party. Last week, in a routine that has now become alarmingly familiar, Premier Ecevit's government was forced to step down after losing its majority in a by-election for five seats in the lower house of parliament. Demirel, his arch rival, will now attempt to try to form a new government...
...music of the year, but also some of the most adventurous. If there was a model or precedent for Tusk, it would seem to be the Beatles' "White Album," an equally ambitious and wide-ranging effort that attempted to bend old forms into new directions. There is much familiar Fleetwood material on Tusk, including the gossamer ballads of Stevie Nicks and the afterglow love songs of Keyboard Player Christine Me Vie, who has one of the easiest and sexiest voices in anyone's neighborhood...
...clear at just what magnitude (or diminutude) a number passes beyond the capacity of an ordinary person to grasp -that is, to picture the quantity. Yet obviously a great effort is required even to cope with what is symbolized by a billion. The proof lies in those familiar tormented illustrations that writers cook up in the hope of suggesting the amount of a billion: the 125-mile-high stack of dollar bills that would add up to about a billion, the airplane propeller turning around the clock at 2,400 r.p.m. that would fall short of spinning a billion times...
...seat read, "Don't ask me to think--I was hired for my looks." Tall, blond, and paunchy, wearing his name (Dick) on a big pewter belt buckle, the man beneath the sign greeted the "ladies" as the coach pulled onto the Mass Pike. "A couple of you look familiar back there," he said. "I didn't see you in a strip joint on 42nd Street...