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Director Joel Schumacher's breathlessly paced and incident-crammed movie will induce a certain sense of deja vu among veteran viewers. Yes, we have intruded in this dust, killed this mockingbird before. But that was back in the days before lawyer jokes, before we became transfixed by transgressive hipness, before we became a full-time culture of irony...
Nothing seems so anachronistically delightful as an old movie that takes place in the future. Whatever dire thing people predicted was going to happen didn't. ID4, set in the near future, has that same comforting feeling. It's deja new. And if the picture gives us familiar thrills instead of the paranormal creeps, just wait. Ambitious writers and directors all over Hollywood are busily devising aliens whose evil is bounded only by their creators' imaginations. As Zemeckis says, "We can make them into what we want them to be, whether it's angry and vengeful or benevolent and healing...
...weekend should evoke at least a mild sense of deja vu for Harvard's players. Two weekends ago, the Crimson faced another big weekend against the Tigers and the Quakers with important ramifications for the Ivy League race...
...heart of his fiscal crusade is his flat tax, a plan derided as "deja voodoo" by economists who blame Reagan's supply-side tax cuts for the explosion of the national debt. He has captured perfectly the fury Americans feel for a system they think treats them like suckers while the rich enjoy a secret tax code written just for them--notwithstanding that his flat tax could favor the rich even more effectively. But his appeal is not only to apparent fairness and simplicity, the allure of a tax return no bigger than a postcard. The plan is also...
...like last year. So does that mean that this year will be hike last year... yikes! But this is not the case. On closer inspection, it's clear that last night's loss was different from those of last year, which gives Harvard fans no reason to worry about deja...