Word: reminder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...short lines remind you a little of "Subterranean Homesick Blues" but it's sad to see Dylan reduced to saying "Life is sad" and affecting a Marlboro-country tough-guy stance about it, offering the comfort of superior sexual performance to his "honey baby." Even "Tangled Up In Blue," the second-best song on the album, can only offer something that sounds like it comes off a poster...
Stone, who declined yesterday to discuss his new position until he has had more time on the job, described himself as "proconsumer." "But I would remind everyone," he said, "that one part of helping the consumer means making sure the insurance companies in this state are strong...
...will be able to keep on this path as long as students don't remind it of the promises of the 60's; and as long as community groups stay so tied up in battling projects like the Kennedy Library that they ignore the behavior of Harvard itself. And when the crash finally comes, the University will authorize a committee to write a report on the problems of the University and the city. And it will probably arrive at the same solutions that the Wilson report came up with seven long years...
...great fun making history come out differently. A great part of the reader's amusement in reading these revisionist fantasies lies in arguing with the authors. Knowing a bit of history helps, but the editor tactfully prefaces each chapter with a paragraph or so of authentic history to remind dullards of the actual date, say, of Kaiser Wilhelm's accession to power and what really happened at Sarajevo...
...part because of this sympathy voters have confidence in Muskie. After Richard Nixon, people want a President they can trust and the long lanks. Lincolnesque Muskie ("Trust Muskie" was his slogan in '72) does his best to remind voters of "Honest Abe." Surely, Democrats predict, if the public has a choice in 1976 between a new Lincoln and a used Ford, voters will select the newer model; clearly. Democrats reason, a car that hugs the middle of the road will be more popular than the used Ford brought to us by the man whom no one would trust to sell...