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...matmen (1-4 Ivies, 9-8 overall) are suffering from a bad case of injuries and a worse case of deja-vu, as the team continues to fall behind by more than 20 points before the middle weights can snap the cold streak...
...stage Delta roared off its pad at 6:18 p.m. Saturday after a trouble-free countdown. Its main liquid-fuel engine and solid-fuel boosters all fired as planned. Delta soared into the clear Florida sky. Then, 71 seconds into its flight, monitoring technicians experienced a chilling case of deja vu. Their instruments showed that the main engine had shut down before it was programmed to do so, causing Delta to lose its flight stability. Veering out of control, the rocket began to break up. At 91 seconds, range safety officials destroyed it by remote control...
Since March 1, four poor and elderly black women, each living alone, have been raped and murdered. In the housing projects and neighborhoods where the murders have occurred, there is a mingled sense of danger and deja vu. "A lot of people are saying, 'Here we go again,' " says State Senator Arthur Langford, pastor of a church in the area. Fear among elderly black women is acute: some are nailing their doors shut each night; others are sleeping during the day in order to stay vigilant after dark; still others are using their Social Security checks to buy pistols...
...fitting stacks of faces into difficult and mannered formats, given his bonhomie and sense of the social moment, the freshness of his color and the adroitness with which he makes his art-historical references--all this admitted, why does this show produce so unmistakable an aftertaste of satiation and deja vu? Katz's fans like to stress that his paintings are "deceptively simple," as though some mass of knotted thought lurked beneath their surfaces. But in fact, what you see is what you get, and his repertoire of compositional tricks, though effective, is not very wide. The hallmark...
PARTIAL EXHILARATION, partial disappointment: one reader's response to this latest collection of essays by Roland Barthes. Intellectual morsels, released posthumously for our literary delectation--they can only be read in the light of all that has gone before, all that has been said and done, Barthes' own deja-dit, deja-vecu...