Word: reminders
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...Gregorian chant, hundreds of years old, though still relevant to music today. It's a living, breathing scrapbook of brick and mortar and fundraising officers who make us remember days gone by. It's the stuffed head of your dead grandfather that the family keeps over the fireplace to remind you of the time that he fought in the Great War and the right side of his face hadn't been eaten away by maggots...
Restless, reckless and tired of being rebuffed, Saddam Hussein once again looked poised to carry out an epic feat of self-destruction. By sending 20,000 fresh troops to breathe heavily across Kuwait's border and then withdrawing them after America clenched its fist, he managed to remind the world that he was a loose cannon, derail the momentum toward lifting the U.N. sanctions that are bleeding his people dry and burnish the prestige of an American President sorely in need of a foreign-policy success. "It was a godsend," said a U.N. diplomat at the Security Council. Exulted...
Likewise, the characters' interactions are awkward. To remind Katherine that she is a burdensome imposter, Isobel makes violent love to Patrick in the adjoining room. Isobel's weak attempt at self-assertion towards a scheming woman does not resonate well. The scene is not only poorly integrated into the film, it weakens it. A rowdy sex scene merely substitutes graphic detail for a more intelligent treatment of the characters' psychology...
...artist creates his own moral universe." The desire to remind David (John Cusack) of such a burden is irresistible -- he's so young, so serious, so ambitious, so innocent. The trouble is that the universe he actually inhabits is the Broadway of the 1920s, where, as in all show-biz societies, morality is entirely ego driven and provisional...
...those unaffected, we should remind everyone that Dylan R. Nieman '98 has a cousin. Dylan's cousin had a bar mitzvah. And Dylan had a tuxedo he was going to wear to his cousin's bar mitzvah. Perhaps it was a heavy tuxedo--or so the ceiling sprinkler head must have thought. After hanging the garment on the aforementioned safety equipment, the entire dorm quickly became flooded with water and some type of fire-retardant tar substance...