Word: remindful
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...soaked when it comes charging down a dry canal. Walks out. Shot of his feet. Curses his leaky Florsheims. And then up walks director Polanski as a short little tough with a foreign accent, who puts a knife in the detective's nostril and makes a little slice to remind him not to be nosey...
...Tufts Thursday night at 8. They're a new band, part of the constantly regrouping L.A. good-vibes country-rock scene. Chris Hillman is an ex-Byrd, Richie Fruay an ex-Poco and J.D. Souther an ex-producer and solo artist. Like most superstar bands with names that remind you of law firms, Souther, Hillman and Furay will probably split up after a record or two--so catch them while they last...
...Leadership can be developed and improved by study and training," General Omar Bradley once told a class at the Army Command and General Staff College in Fort Leavenworth, Kans. "But don't discount experience. Someone may remind you that Napoleon led armies before he was 30 and Alexander the Great died at 33. Alexander might have been even greater if he had lived to an older age and had had more experience. In this respect, I especially like [the] theory that 'judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment...
Even if little comes of his advice, history may yet judge Solzhenitsyn a success-and not merely in the realm of art. For he is surely one of those towering witnesses thrown up by history (or God) in moments of crisis to remind the world that the pursuit of material progress is no way to the peace that passes understanding. For the first tune, though, that message may concern survival as well as salvation...
...hands. In a style reminiscent of Charles de Gaulle, he has been touring the country, combining stops at military barracks with eloquent speeches in town squares. The general's whistle-stopping seems to have three main goals: to build up a personal following directly with the masses, to remind the army that its loyalty should be to him and not to the revolutionary captains who led the coup, and to warn the anarchic left that he will use force if necessary to keep order. Some military officers are unhappy about Spinola's blatant power grab, but there...