Word: deja
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...editors who gathered around the city desk at the Arkansas Democrat- Gazette, Clinton's hometown paper, had a sense of deja vu. Says managing editor John Starr: "We knew about allegations since October 1990, but we ignored them. We did, the other paper did, the TV stations did. Now here are tapes indicating that this woman has been speaking with the Governor in a way no married man should permit another woman to talk with him on the telephone." So the paper put a dozen reporters on the story. That bore fruit within hours: a story poking holes in Flowers...
...DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN...
...remember 1952 experienced a sharp jolt of deja vu 35 years later during the Iran-contra hearings of 1987. When the Reagan Administration nominated Lieut. Colonel Oliver North as its designated fall guy, North's brilliant attorney, Brendan Sullivan Jr., had his client not only boldly defy Marine Corps protocol by appearing before the congressional panel in full uniform with a chestful of decorations but also present his defense with the same quaver of voice and modicum of manly moisture in the eye that had served Nixon so well. The result was a tidal wave of Olliemania that swept...
...Yugoslavia's strife, the E.C. has been haunted by a feeling of deja vu. More than a century ago, Otto von Bismarck gazed on another Balkan crisis -- the collapse of the empire of Ottoman Turkey -- and shrank from getting militarily involved. In the Iron Chancellor's view, Germany had no interests there that "would be worth the healthy bones of a single Pomeranian musketeer." Though Serbian nationalism went on to ignite the First World War, the E.C. last week seemed to feel much as Bismarck had. At an emergency session in the Hague, the Community's foreign ministers rejected...
Many East Europeans watched the dismantling of the Soviet Communist Party last week with a sense of deja vu. Although it has been almost a year since the last Soviet bloc nation was ruled by a communist monolith (Bulgaria in December), traces of the party still lace everyday life in most former satellites...