Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stock Steel Magnolias with Southern belles, wicked of eye and tongue, though ultimately forgiving of heart. It was shrewd of him to work his successful off-Broadway drama around personal milestones (marriage, birth, death) that everyone shares. His characters may be exotics, but their situations are achingly familiar...
...Dogs Go to Heaven, Bluth takes a vacation from portent and dips into anecdote. Listen for familiar echoes (Little Miss Marker, Heaven Can Wait, even Disney's 1988 cartoon Oliver & Company) in the story of Charlie, a German shepherd who is reprieved from death and befriends a little girl kidnaped by his scurvy old gang. Visually, the picture is swathed in Bluth's trademark golden browns and moody blues. Aurally, it's a reunion of the Burt Pack: Burt Reynolds is the voice of Charlie, Loni Anderson is the moll Flo, the exuberantly flustered Dom DeLuise is Charlie...
...Thursday night, and the scene is a familiar one, both on screen and off. On "L.A. Law," photogenic young barristers execute melodramatic cross-examinations. And at Harvard, students live out "fantasy law" with them--en masse...
...Swiss time, he is plopped on a couch watching television in a room full of hockey players. He cannot find Alex Trebek's mug on the tube, but the faces around him are familiar. In for a visit are former teammates Andy Janfaza '88, Steve Armstrong '88 and Gerald Green...
Despite the criticism of the arrangement, thepractice of placing donors on advisory committeescontinues, according to those familiar withHarvard fundraising. And, particularly in schoolswith few wealthy alumni such as the Kennedy Schooland the Graduate School of Design (GSD), thoseadvisory committees are instrumental in helping tocreate affiliations between potential givers andthe programs which need to be funded...