Word: reminder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unfortunately, the revival is a dud. To break the news gently to those around 50: the show is unlikely to remind you of the heady days when the nation sent Lucky Strike Green to war. It will prove to you how bald, paunchy and pooped a show can get in 27 years...
...stage of the battle with Israel has begun," Egypt's President Anwar Sadat told university professors in Cairo last week. Sadat, preparing to leave on his second trip to the Soviet Union since he became President a year ago, wanted to remind the world that Egypt had friends in Moscow who would help him keep the stage very well heated indeed...
...Wilde once declared of American artist James McNeil Whistler; "Ah, Whistler! Yes, wonderful of course, but, how he fears beauty! He puts a blot, a mere stain like a petal, a butterfly upon a sheet of paper and dares not touch it, lest its charm be lost. His portraits remind me of the painter in Balzac's Chefd' oeuvre inconnu, laboring his canvas for years and when he draws the curtain to show the masterpiece, lo, there is nothing...
...years, Smokey the Bear has been a uniquely successful advertising gimmick to remind Americans about the dangers of forest fires. Now the Federal Government wants to spread the word about environmental pollution, but it is caught up in a bureaucratic battle over what cartoon character should embody the cause...
...published in paperback last week for $1.50, has become something of a boondoggler's bible. The report names no names and initiates no punitive action, but the mere threat of publication has been known to bring straying functionaries back into line. If nothing else, the booklet serves to remind Frenchmen of the flimflamming-and foolishness -of their civil servants. Some of the cases cited this year...