By now, the steps in this transformation are as familiar as folklore here, the sweat-fueled climb from tiny neighborhood assembly plant to large-scale, integrated production, in places like Shenzhen, which produces extraordinary quantities of everything from microwaves and air-conditioners to cheap toys and fake Christmas trees.
Simpson's serialized, monochromatic works read like pages in a newspaper that stretch throughout time and space, grouping together the stories that by now are as familiar as folklore.
Health care providers should be aware of CAM use in older adults, specifically those who live in rural areas who may be familiar with folklore and other alternative interventions in their daily health care practices.
You might not be familiar with the folklore or the spiritual references (and the gallery doesn't offer much support in this department), but you can still enjoy the works' composition and ethereal mood, which dovetails nicely with contemporary art's (that is, the urban-hipster variety's) current craze for earnest expressionism in all its forms.
One of the earliest design emblems of the newly assertive South Korea was Hodori, the mascot of the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games, which was a tiger, a familiar animal in Korean folklore, sporting a sangmo hat traditionally worn by peasant musicians.
"Adults miss fairy tales of their childhood, and the younger generation simply is not familiar with the Russian folklore," Vadim Sokolovsky, the film's director, wrote in an e-mail message.
To be familiar with characters of folklore and to find them to be flesh and blood (and inextricably linked with one's own life) are, of course, two quite different matters.
BEIJING — They are exemplars from folklore who are familiar to Chinese schoolchildren.
In Boy, Snow, Bird (Riverhead), Helen Oyeyemi spins a surreal retelling of the Snow White story, embedding West African folklore into the familiar plot line to consider what beauty means to its beholder -- and to those who behold it in the mirror.
("If Nietzsche had only been familiar with the data of anthropology and folklore!" he wrote, typically and touchingly, some years after his Southwestern sojourn).
