Word: familiarly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...changes to the single automobile seat of Dark Pony, the gaps of ambiguity widen. A father recites a familiar fairytale to his young daughter as they drive home in the car. Brown and Zito are convincing enough, but the point of the play is muddy. When they repeat the same scene after Reunion, the tale is again unclear, and a little annoying. A juxtaposition of two stages of a relationship, maybe, but they are not even the same relationship. Perhaps Samuels thought Reunion too short and heavy in its transcendant minimalism, and so included the other; otherwise, there seems little...
...their time studying. It's nice to be able to roll out of bed at 8:29 for an 8:30 class. But after a while, most students find that the disadvantages of Vanderbilt begin to outweigh the advantages, and most eventually move out. As the students become more familiar with the Boston area, finding an apartment becomes easier. And when students move out of the centrally located classrooms and into the hospitals, which are spread across a much larger area, Vanderbilt's location is no longer a big attraction. And besides, how many doctors live in dorms...
Following a by now familiar pattern, the hoopsters came on strong the moment the second half whistle blew, dunking in three quick connectors to tie up the score at 26-all. Whatever it is coach Carole Kleinfelder says to her team during half-time, it invariably works magic for the first several minutes...
Likenesses of Abraham Lincoln stare down from monuments and up from pennies and $5 bills; his mythic face is surely one of the most familiar in history. Yet no two of the 120 known surviving photographs of him look exactly alike, a fact surprisingly documented in The Face of Lincoln (Viking; 201 pages; $75). Editor James Mellon spent years combing the country for Lincoln pictures; when original plates or negatives were available, they were meticulously developed to bring out all retrievable detail. This work has brought forth images of astonishing clarity; it sometimes seems possible to number the hairs...
...Sound familiar but somehow fiat? The more famous rendering of Psalms 8: 4 is rather more ringing: "What is man that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man that thou dost care for him?" But Christians in the English-speaking world had better get used to the neutered wording, for it may appear in the new edition of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible due a decade from now. The reworked RSV will include hundreds of such language changes made in the cause of stripping Scripture of "sexism...