Word: reminded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...efforts at tax reform remind me of one of Denmark's better-known fairy tales," said the President during his dinner toast. "When I talk about (reforming the tax system), I can visualize a beautiful swan. All the special interests see is an ugly duckling...
...These and others like them remind us how precious freedom, democracy and opportunity are," Bush said...
With the hostages freed and no dead terrorists, some called for a little retribution, B-52 style. We all know that the United States military could turn Lebanon back into a desert if it had the inclination, but wouldn't it be even nicer to remind ourselves, with the cameras rolling, of the decivilizing that a few well-placed loads of bombs...
...music remind Robbins of the past? In the theme of death and transfiguration there are resonances of the mourning and then renewal that the company has had to endure since Balanchine's death. The ballet ends with a vision of heaven, indicated in the score by a beautiful chorale. As always, Robbins skillfully uses some company youngsters: Peter Boal, looking like an archangel, Damian Woetzel, a particularly blithe spirit who joined the troupe last month, and Teresa Reyes, a recent incarnation of Balanchine's leggy ideal. In Memory of . . . ends with a homage to him. Farrell is carried offstage...
...popular with Los Angeles collectors, his untutored and zappy scrawls routinely praised for their "energy." (This anxious hope for signs of energy is a sure index of cultural flabbiness.) But for postgraffiti art the writing is already on the wall, and such careers, rolling in their limos to oblivion, remind one of Robert Graves' Epitaph on an Unfortunate Artist...