Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...interest is low, it's certainly not because the issue isn't pervasive. Just now, a familiar figure with a shredded overcoat and shopping cart brimming with empty soda cans has stopped outside my dorm window, inspecting his inventory, maybe worrying about the onset of frigid nights. The march is for him, and for his family...
Since bureaucratic sadism is familiar to everyone everywhere, I was somewhat prepared for the denial of a simple request during the 600-mile, 18-hour train trip to Beijing. But I was not prepared for the sheer delight visible on the conductor's face when she said, "Meiyou, the rule does not permit turning on the lights before 7 p.m. and it's only 6:30. You will just have to wait 30 minutes...
Advertisers favor O'Neill for his familiar face and grandfatherly voice. The pay is handsome: for a day's work he gets $100,000, equivalent to his annual salary as Speaker. Says he: "I always said I'd never be a lobbyist, and lo and behold, a new career fell upon me." Next on his agenda: ads for the Trump Shuttle...
...problem: Many members of the department were reluctant to tenure Spence because they were not familiar with the young scholar's work, Schelling says...
...writers are more comfortable with them too. Carvey's Bush impersonation galvanized the troupe into some sharp political satire on the '88 campaign. In one inspired sketch during the Iran-contra affair, President Reagan (ah, that's Phil Hartman) puts on his familiar bumbling act in public, then turns into a whipcracking boss in private, directing every detail of the covert operation, down to computing interest on the money stored in Swiss bank accounts. The show's movie parodies have also had some shrewd twists: Carvey, for example, playing Dustin Hoffman's autistic savant in Rain Man -- who turns...