Word: repeat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...posters. Quincy's agent overzealously pasted posters not only on kiosks and bulletin boards, but also on Science Center walls and the backs of chairs in lecture halls. Following his roommate's postering orgy, Switzer received a letter from University Hall threatening to fine the society $25 for repeat offenses...
...always enthusiastic about retreading old ground. Larry Hagman, now the kingpin of Dallas, refused to re-create his old supporting role for NBC's I Dream of Jeannie: 15 Years Later. Says Star Barbara Eden: "It's dangerous messing around with something that people really liked, to try to repeat it." Dangerous, perhaps, but also potentially lucrative. Perry Mason Returns was the top-rated TV movie for all of 1985; a follow-up is planned for this spring, and up to three more for next season...
...similar information overload happens every time a big news story breaks. For hours, radio and television repeat what they know ("for those who tuned in late") and raise unanswered questions about the rest; they are joined later by newspapers and magazines. They are all doing their competitive best, and much is quickly learned by the newsgatherers, but oh, the surfeit of words...
...against a totally unconventional movement. The Aquino campaign, long on enthusiasm and short on organization, sometimes resembled a political Woodstock. As Aquino and her vice-presidential nominee, Salvador ("Doy") Laurel, crisscrossed 68 provinces, hundreds of thousands of Filipinos from all walks of life swarmed to hear the presidential challenger repeat a simple talk. At each stop, Aquino related the alleged suffering her family had endured at the hands of the Marcos government, culminating in her husband's 1983 assassination. She capped each speech with a slogan: "Sobra na, tama na, palitan na!" (Too much, enough, let's change...
...trial, Shcharansky said, "For more than 2,000 years, my people have been dispersed. Wherever Jews were, they would repeat every year, 'Next year in Jerusalem!' At present I am as far as ever from my people and from Avital. To them I can only say, 'Next year in Jerusalem.' " Eight years later, after enduring the afflictions of a latter-day Job, he may be close to Jerusalem at last...