Word: reminders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Celebrity status, as the checkout-counter newspapers constantly remind us, is no guarantor of happiness or security. Schickel reels off the familiar tragedies of those who found there was no room at the top: John Belushi, Freddie Prinze, Dylan Thomas, Janis Joplin, Marilyn Monroe. Yet some of the deceased, like proper legends, have regained their power in death. Humphrey Bogart is a greater celebrity now than when he was alive; so is John Lennon. The fade-out has become as important in life as onscreen; no wonder Hollywood repartee has become standardized: "Elvis Presley is dead." "Good career move...
...believe, for the reasons you proposed in your article. Why, then, is it so appealing to a college age audience? Sex, my friend, sex. The women figures, hidden in the picture like "Nina"s in a Hirschfeld drawing, are not intended to stimulate your subconscious; they appear to remind you of that freshman Psychology course you took in which you were told about the strategy of subliminal advertising. They are there to prolong the amount of time you spend looking in the vicinity of the name of their product. No doubt some scout for Edge will have seen your free...
...appeared briefly before a subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Democratic Congressman Ted Weiss of New York City took Shultz to task for mentioning a possible Cuban and Nicaraguan role in international drug trafficking. Then, in a classic case of overstatement, Weiss heatedly added that Shultz's remarks "remind me of the Army-McCarthy hearings in 1954." Shultz reddened and replied angrily, "When you compare me to Senator (Joseph) McCarthy, I resent it deeply." The Secretary refused to testify further until he received an apology. Weiss said that he had not meant to make a personal comparison of Shultz...
...scowling horror. The joy mask gets stuck on his head. Another successful number is "The Angel," in which Marceau portrays an angel who periodically visits earth. Just when he is in the throes of embrace or of drink, heavenly music and light surround him to remind him to behave properly...
...need hardly remind you that two Black law students were recently required to identify themselves on the law school grounds when Harvard security officers sought a "Black male with a mustache and wearing a dark suit." I am amazed that the University has failed to take corrective action...