Word: reminds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...highest amount of money ever paid for a piece of movie memorabilia, but Spielberg was unfazed. "It would have been an insult," he said, "if it had gone for only $20,000"-the expected price tag. "Rosebud," promises the hot hit-making director, "will go over my typewriter to remind me that quality in movies comes first...
...most popular, despite drawbacks. Their tiny, one-line display screens are better for solving engineering problems or showing long strings of numbers than for serious writing or business programming, and their calculator-type keyboards are much harder to master than those of larger desktop computers. But they remind some users of the proverbial dog walking on its hind legs: what is surprising is not how well they work, but that they work at all. One U.S. insurance company is considering buying 25,000 of Matsushita's $380 HHC model to let its salesmen calculate premiums right before potential customers...
...destiny of Thomas Hardy, a quiet little man whose principal excitement consisted of a bicycle ride followed by afternoon tea, to remind his fellow Victorians of an England darker and madder than anything in literature since Lear roamed the heath. The novelist made contemporary by film (Tess) and television (The Mayor of Casterbridge) was born in 1840 in a remote Dorset village. There, farmers, shepherds and artisans lived in a kind of Elizabethan time warp. But something dour and reductive in this son of a stone mason drove him back beyond morris dances to a pagan Britain haunted by ancient...
...Summits remind most thoughtful people that American nuclear forces contain the Soviets, that American carriers guard the trade routes and even that British Harriers in the Falklands fire American Sidewinder missiles. The real is sue in this European extravaganza is U.S. leadership. Ronald Reagan seems to understand. A Yank who has a prairie heritage, has a beautiful wife in rhinestones and knickers, and is fun at a dinner party has a lot going for him. The very for Reagan can do is go out as he did in the old days to win one for the Gipper. He was doing...
...work every evening at 5 o'clock, to a tape of George Benson's mellow ballad The Greatest Love of All. Said Cooney dreamily: "Listen to the words." As his dainty hands were being double-bandaged by Trainer Victor Valle, the fighter sang along: ". . . Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be . . ." Sonny Liston skipping, sparring and sneering to Night Train...