In fact, among the titles in the brochure, the name of the writer – Mamet, Churchill – is always far more familiar than the play to which it is attached (Duck Variations, Owners).
(This is huge in psycho-self-help at the moment: stimulating grateful thoughts also allays guilt. Hebb's law – neurones that fire together, wire together – suggests that your brain will always choose the more familiar pathway).
There is another London I always knew existed, a place more familiar to my own teenage children who know its rules and misrule – the places that are dangerous, the streets to avoid.
It's not always successful – Indian Summer is a more familiar rock chug – but it's hard to listen to the raw, guilt-laden No One's Perfect with a dry eye.
Accordingly, the work laces classical idioms with Mr. Mehldau's more familiar jazz voice, not always persuasively.
So as you can see, hair loss has always been a "big deal" and baldness is more familiar than has been talked about openly -- for women.
Those of us who are more familiar with these operas are always looking for a new treatment, an interesting angle, or something just a little different.
But last night's meeting between two title contenders, one in more familiar territory than the other, was always going to be buried in subplot and nuance.
Many of the main yellow jersey contenders will have done the same, so it doesn't necessarily give you an advantage, but being a little bit more familiar with what is coming is always a bonus.
The ostomy management becomes more and more familiar and the patients, although they always need the support of their partners, are no longer completely dependent.
