Word: deja
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...from earlier material seems necessary, even when some of the new directions promise to be less consequential; attempts to reawaken the old are simply unsuccessful. "Give a Damn," a "talking song" on Paul and was a theme song for the Urban Coalition. It evokes, above all, a sense of deja vu. Its point is that arm-chair liberals are hypocrites--not an especially novel insight...
There was so much China coverage before the visit-and so much repetition during it-that some faithful viewers succumbed to an advanced case of deja vu. Part of the problem was the 13-hour time difference between Peking and New York. Live coverage of evening events reached the U.S. early in the morning and was repeated on the news that night. Even the President's visit to the Great Wall failed to provide the dramatic impact that might have been expected, and CBS canceled planned live coverage of his tour of the Forbidden City. "I just thought...
...that has unaccountably survived is Ko An, named for Morris ["Two Gun"] Cohen, a London-born freebooter who was one of Sun Yat-sen's bodyguards). But if Nixon tours the industrial fair during his one-day stay in the city, he might well have a sense of deja vn while inspecting the locally made automobiles. Those Shanghai sedans look remarkably like Chinese Checkers...
...feel a little guilty wasting one's time on such froth. A Wodehouse novel goes in one hemisphere of the brain and out the other, leaving little more behind than a television situation comedy--some of his novels I've read twice with only the slightest feeling of deja vu. Still, at times one would rather watch a Three Stooges short than 2001, and it's somehow nice to know there are hundreds more Three Stooges episodes, even if there is only...
...paid much attention to the rally. A Southern woman emceed a few deja-entendu speeches, and exuberantly drawled, "Right On!" after each one. When the speeches were over, telephone contact was made with representatives of North Vietnam and the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam (PRG) in Paris. The representatives' voices were amplified over the rally's sound system, and the crowd made a short attempt at reverential attention. The Vietnamese made two speeches--little rhetoric, little new, little substance. The Seven Point Peace Plan, which told Nixon if he set a date for withdrawal of all U.S. military forces...