Word: remindful
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...measure of the author's formidable skills that she vividly evokes the misery of Momma Towne and her four stepdaughters without suffocating the reader in their chronic gloom. While the backdrop is one of complaint, cryptic exchanges -- "That again? Are we rehashing that again?" -- are enough to remind us of the women's litany. Their oppressive unhappiness is artfully offset by the vitality of the three youngest Townes, who, like flowers that bloom in urban sidewalk cracks, fight for life...
...Jones was, in fact, ever so slightly ahead of its time (1963), coming as it did on the cusp of the era of Janis Joplin and LSD. Richardson and Fielding are there to remind us that "free love" was around centuries before the 1960s, may have taken a break during the 50s, but was about to make a strong return by the late 60s. The characters in Tom Jones are among the fiercest drinkers and wildest lovers in all of history...
...People throw away a lot of stuff in this country," the 48-year-old unemployed construction worker says. "You have to remind kids that they can do this too and that they don't have to go out to Bradlees...
Students said the purpose of last night'stake-over was to remind the administration aboutthe passion they feel for their cause...
...time for the abstinent '90s. Randy Travis' first hit single, On the One Hand, set the tone in 1985, in an ambivalent lament that "on the one hand, I count the reasons/ I could stay with you/ . . . But on the other hand/ There's a golden band/ To remind me of someone/ Who would not understand." Today the title song of Mike Reid's album Turning + for Home is a tribute to his baby daughter; George Strait is praising the immutability of paternal love in Love Without End, Amen; Alan Jackson is chanting to his wife that I'd Love...