Word: reminders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dominant theme. The most vulnerable targets of Funt's sexual satire are social victims: fat ladies in print dresses, cavernous old men prattling about the new amorality, young men anxious for employment, unaware that the hidden waiting-room camera is counting every tic. Periodically, Funt breaks in to remind the audience that it is hidebound by the strictures of Victorian morality, that his X-rated candid camerawork is helping to free society from hypocrisy and cant. But if society were truly free, there would be no Naked Lady, which lives, like any thigh-slapping practical joker, on the embarrassment...
...only remind the Senate of its responsibilities, for the Senate will never supersede the President in foreign affairs. The legislature can delay, emasculate, or even prohibit executive action-but the initiative remains with the President. The Senate could not produce a foreign policy of its own so long as the executive retains a monopoly of action...
...Indians do not .ne.e4..mqre, concern; they need more help. We Arizonans are proud of the important contribution American Indians have made and are making to our state and nation. And we are likewise proud of the effects of our congressional delegation in helping them gain equal opportunity. Please remind your writers, and perhaps Senator Kennedy, that the age of rhetoric is over; the time for action is at hand...
...NATO ally and a choice opportunity for Coca-Cola and Litton Industries. The heroes of Z have either been bumped off or impounded in remote islands and communities around Greece. Hopefully, Z will impress its viewers not only as exciting drama and good cinema, but will also remind them of current realities in Greece...
...hold the oboe in our hands for a moment. What does it remind us of? Or rather, I should say, "What are we thinking?" I make this distinction for several reasons, the most essential one being that if anyone were to respond identically to both these questions, it would show that they had failed to listen properly. Other reasons come to mind. I am holding an oboe in my hands. I think, "What does it remind me of?" It reminds me of a neck. Still, I am no longer happy with this evocation. Are you? Perhaps I have said...