It was fitting that Rove -- whose fundraising success for the two groups is heavily based on tapping networks of wealthy donors with whom he is familiar -- was given the featured speaking role at the Solamere investor conference.
The control group (Group Familiar) was given the same pairs of objects, but they were all highly familiar, having been exposed to the rats on every previous test session.
This gleefully familiar setup is given an effective, almost theatrical presentation by the director Nimród Antal (his previous film was the excellent Hungarian thriller "Kontroll"), who is an expert at slowly structuring the gathering dread.
Post-apocalyptic scenarios of being the last person alive on Earth are standard fare for Young Adult literature, but that familiar trope is given a twist in a debut novel that brings to mind such unlikely bedfellows as Thoreau's Walden and Emma Donoghue's Room.
Orecchiette with broccoli rape and house-made sausage ($13) is excellent, with the mellow meat rounding off the bitterness of the green, while linguine with tiny clams and garlic ($14.50) sounds familiar but is given an unusual, breezy quality by a careful addition of herbs.
All this, though familiar to Christians, is given lucid force in Miles's careful retrieval, in which he combingly takes us through the chief astonishments of Jesus' life, largely as they are recounted in the Gospel of John.
Familiar Caribbean cooking is given an Inwood polish, as in the maduro relleno de bacalao ($12), a sweet plantain roasted with the skin on, then split and stuffed with spiced salt cod; and the churrasco ($22), charred skirt steak served with a pile of chimichurri-mopping fries.
Even a familiar selection like chili relleno is given a twist: Mr. Sandoval stuffs his with seafood and cheese.
And that familiar crown and burger logo is given a subtle twist, and a new name, in reference to the 3.7 million Hungarians living below the breadline.
The familiar plot of star-crossed lovers is given a Libyan setting.
