Yet along with the familiarity, there were also submerged tensions and divisions.
But amongst the familiarity there were original elements: a Breton top was reprised in leather and a pair of dungarees had a flirty sailor collar at the back.
Another problem is familiarity: there are too many of the usual suspects who populate shows devoted to work by nonwhite artists.
"With familiarity, there are one of two possibilities: it can make you more prepared, and, on the other hand, it can increase complacency, so that you overlook obvious things.
If fear of alienating people hounds most artistic invention into shallow familiarity, there is apparently enough reward in the prospect of exciting people to keep even purely commercial ventures ranging into the unknown.
For all that, the overriding feeling when De Villiers revealed his hand for the forthcoming tournament was one of familiarity: there are more players in the Springbok party who really know what they're doing at international level than in any of the other 19 squads.
All this is staged with what can be politely ascribed to a delight in familiarity; there's an "applause" sign to egg on the audience, a stagehand who appears, kneeling with an electric fan, to make Keely's long silk scarf billow for the camera, and a variety of cheesily cheap television backdrops in semi-psychedelic 1960's style.
Teams have far more familiarity, there's no bye week(s) and far less drama.
Despite Maryland's chemistry and familiarity, there are still a number of challenges looming between Monday evening's practice and the season opener Sept. 5 against Richmond.
To investigate whether decoding differed for familiar and unfamiliar objects in V1, we conducted a 2-way ANOVA with the factors (region and familiarity): there were no significant main effects or interactions in this analysis although there was a trend (P = 0.065) for a main effect of region.
