Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After the officer placed his hat over the photographer's lens, the Crimson editor asked if he was familiar with the Massachusetts Civil Rights Act, a law which bars anyone from intimidating people in an effort to keep them from exercising their rights under the Constitution or other laws...
...Most schools are not familiar with antitrust investigations and what they entail," says Ronald G. Carr, who is representing Princeton University for the Washington-based firm of Morrison and Foerster...
...atmosphere. The love scenes are done with suggestive fade-outs and oblique, not quite discernable, soft-focus close-ups that are more erotic than today's obligatory nudity; they reveal the source of some of the original furor over the film. In fact, a number of the scenes look familiar, and one, which has Valmont calling Marianne while he is lounging on the bare Cecilia doing her homework, is paraphrased in the later film...
...plates, celluloid spools and other light-sensitive surfaces exposed to history in the name of publishing, only a handful of images have themselves become part of history. These form a sort of shared visual heritage for the human race, a treasury of significant memories. Every educated person should be familiar with them, just as he or she would know the great achievements of painting, sculpture or music. And every person, educated or not, should be moved by these journalistic images, just as he or she would be by the masterpieces...
...conversations suddenly turns into an excited murmur as a sandy-haired man in an open-necked white shirt and corduroy trousers saunters in and heads for an empty table. He nonchalantly opens a tattered case and removes, then hooks together, the sections of an antique clarinet. Peering through his familiar black-rimmed glasses, he hops up onto the bandstand and takes his usual seat next to the piano. The trumpet player snaps his fingers twice, and suddenly the whole room is reverberating to the strains of a 1905 pop tune, In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree...