Within 10 pages of beginning "Mister Max: The Book of Lost Things," the first volume in a new series by the Newbery Medal winner Cynthia Voigt, we recognize the familiar moves of what is, in no bad sense, a very familiar kind of story.
Beta is the most familiar product of what economists call the "theory of efficient markets".
Certainly Cannes, like other festivals, has greatly expanded on the familiar idea of what constitutes a film festival and now looks back at cinema's history with retrospective screenings and toward the future with initiatives that support young filmmakers.
But also from the same source as the 19th-century conviction, Western again, that Japanese art is intrinsically decorative, the source being an unreflective habit of judging the unfamiliar along familiar models of what is superior and what is not.
Throughout this book, Valerie Martin's eleventh, there are many such moments of discovery: sudden revelations amid the familiar structure of what people think they already know, sudden twists on what people may have known forever.
A potentially stunning novel ends up containing the familiar ratio of what is good and bad in Amis's writing, the usual mix of Amis gems and Amis junk".
As a result, for much of the campaign I discussed what everybody else discussed, which too often was a familiar list of what the insiders agree are 'the issues.' " (This is an eerily precise description of what Gore has been doing — again — in his second Presidential race).
As a result, for much of the campaign I discussed what everybody else discussed, which too often was a familiar list of what the insiders agree are 'the issues.' " Friends remember asking one another: Was he trying to blow up his career?
The current government "has the mandate and potential to address the public health emergencies facing the country," the authors wrote, adding, "Will they do so, or will another opportunity and many more lives be lost?" The scientists described the calamitous and now familiar consequences of what they called Mr. Mbeki's "bizarre and seemingly unshakable belief that H.I.V. did not cause AIDS".
Instead, there's been a recommitment to doing more of the familiar, more of what hasn't worked over the last decade and a half.
