Word: familiarities
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...second and third trials are more of a showcase of Wilde's fine mind than anything else. We hear epigrams that sound familiar, pieces from De Profundis, Wilde's epistle on the trial proceedings, and we watch his demise from self-assured man of arts and letters to groveling, humiliated and saddened accused criminal...
...Omniscope is peculiar in that it takes pictures on the inside of cylindrical pieces of film, distorting and stretching the images. The results are astounding. Mardozo's nude self-portraits are veritable fleshscapes in which body parts ooze up and into each other. They are at once ancient, even familiar and at the same time terrifyingly alien. In some ways Mardozo's work is less concerned with the problematic relationship between artistic representation and the female form than the other pieces in the show. "Nudes to the Nth" leaves behind identifiable femininity for a rich, mysterious world where skin...
...There?s also the issue of "under-challenging" American students, or withholding complicated subject matter until students reach the so-called "appropriate" age. Some experts speculate there may be great benefit to introducing advanced subjects like geometry, chemistry and physics before high school - giving students ample time to become familiar with the topic, and, teachers hope, establish something resembling a comfort level with difficult concepts...
...standard four-week stay usually required by drug treatment centers. Talk to any number of celebrities, from Matthew Perry to Liza Minnelli, and mention that number, and they they're likely to have a Pavlovian response, like chain-smoking or blaming a parent. It's such a familiar milestone that last year one of our major studios used it as the name of a movie. Sony's ?"28 Days" starred Sandra Bullock as a party girl battling addictions, an unsupportive boyfriend and a weak script...
Though renowned philosophy professor John R. Searle has called some of Kurzweil's visions "preposterous," several of his predictions about cyberdevelopments of the 1990s--Does a computer beating a world chess champion sound familiar?--have proved dead...