Word: reminders
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...yell in order to be heard. Gradually I learned by example that I had to be loud to be effective, not only vocally but also physically, contorting my body violently in order to sell each call. As one of my old coaches and fellow umpires would constantly remind me, the closer the call, the louder I had to yell, and the more authoritatively I had to gesture with my arms and legs...
...plunked down in the middle of the red dirt road leading into the hamlet. The Secret Service deemed Rwanda's memorial to genocide victims, on a hillock at the airport, too dangerous a venue for Clinton's speech on the slaughter. A White House advance woman felt compelled to remind network correspondents that it would be "inappropriate" to deliver their stand-ups in cell No. 5 on Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela spent nearly 18 years...
...maybe, if we can find it in our hearts, we should reserve a small thank-you to Titanic for making women so hungry to look feminine right now. The era depicted in the movie "was, after all, the era of languid dress," Martin is quick to remind. And more to the point, perhaps, the grand era of fools for love...
Either way, a sign that says "Vulva" does nothing to celebrate queer culture or facilitate its integration. It only serves to remind us that the last episode of "Seinfeld" is fast approaching...
...make a tribute to their memory by making these students' deaths, and more importantly, their lives, into signs for ourselves: not as opportunities to trumpet our own causes on their behalf, but as signals reminding all of us to take notice of the people around us, to appreciate them and to care about them. While many of us never knew Okrent, some who were touched by his life, as well as those who were touched by the lives of others who died this year, have returned from spring break still grieving. If there is one thing that we can learn...