The series is sentimental in a sleek way, and there are surface glints of humor in the script, but mostly, "Brian" is a blander, less distinctive version of "Thirtysomething".
Walter Meierjohann, artistic director for theatre at the new Manchester arts centre, Home, presents a visually lush and distinctive version of Ödön von Horváth's Kasimir and Karoline, a play originally set in 1929 at a German beer festival after the Wall Street crash.
Seal sometimes sounded like a less adventurous, less distinctive version of Sting.
You won't want to miss the account of his Aunt Tzipi escaping Nazis in Shanghai: she meets a chef with his own distinctive version of Peking duck, the preparation of which requires touching a virgin's flesh "all over".
Together they give a good sense of his distinctive version of Pop: obstreperous, messy and rude, the equivalent of grimy mitts and a belch in MoMA's clean white halls.
She does it through the medium of dance – dread words in any other context, but here meaning an energetic rendition of Beyoncé's distinctive version of twerking.
Gaudí is the genius of modernisme - not "modernism" as we now understand the word but a very different aesthetic, a distinctive Catalan version of art nouveau's florid response to the challenge of turn-of-the-century life.
He thus maintained a distinctive, revised version of the traditional Glasgow School position on the relationship of the laboratory and the clinic: equally valid partners.
The issues between us are how and whether we can move further toward these objectives under our political system and its distinctive version of democracy.
