Word: deja
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With Harvard leading, 22-7, on Burke St. John's touchdown in the fourth quarter, Cozza tried to give the Crimson an unwanted case of deja vu. In last year's Yale game, Yale quarterback Pat O'Brien threw a pass to split end John Spagnola, who stunned Harvard with a perfect aerial to Bob Krystiniak for a 66-yd. TD. But that was last year...
...THEIR WORST, political campaigns are not unlike trashy novels. In large measure they consist of contrived drama, timely coincidence, tawdry innuendo and caricatured protagonists indulging in fantastical posturing. They are memorable mainly for the deja vu they inspire. And they are getting longer and longer. And longer. If a presidential contest were a book, it would be thousands of pages long...
...York Times Columnist Tom Wicker, it was dramatic deja vu. There stood Wicker in a prison courtyard full of makeshift tents and rebellious prisoners, just as he had eight years earlier when he acted as a negotiator during New York's infamous Attica prison riot. That time, the talks collapsed and 39 people died, most of them inmates but some of them the guards they had taken as hostages. This time, it was all playacting: ABC is filming a two-hour television drama, Attica, based on Wicker's book about the 1971 uprising. Barred from using Attica itself...
...surprise to watch the future Nobel laureate acceding to the demands of the popular press. As a result of such proddings, Faulkner's magazine stories were usually simpler, more straightforward and less resonant than his finest work. Reprinted in Uncollected Stories, these early versions inspire a sense of deja vu, for Faulkner frequently expanded and reshaped his published stories and inserted them in novels. A tale of his called The Bear appeared in the Post in 1942, but it reads like a libretto to the famous novella of the same name that he included in Go Down, Moses later...
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