Word: repeat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...televised campaign speech on Goldwater's behalf 20 years ago by a Hollywood has-been had launched Ronald Reagan on his political career. Reagan aides had hoped that Goldwater would not dwell too much on his old crusades, but the Senator was unswayed by pleas that he not repeat the most famous and divisive line from his own acceptance speech. He uttered it with gusto: "Let me remind you, extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice...
...reasons why Tennessee Williams' plays have endured, but in the opening minutes of Showtime's new production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, it is the most obvious. (The production, part of the network's "Broadway on Showtime" series, premiered on Sunday and will repeat this Wednesday and on several dates next week and next month.) Jessica Lange, who stars as Maggie the Cat, leaps into her syrupy, Scarlett O'Hara cadences like an eight-year-old sloshing around in a mud puddle: "One of the no-neck mahn-stuhs messed...
Chernenko: Me neither, but, I repeat, what are we going to do about...
...still be around had they done so. Tracy Caulkins was a team star as long ago as the world championships of 1978, when she won five golds; now it was grand to see her, at 21, glide majestically through the 400-meter individual medley to a gold, and then repeat her performance with a powerful Olympic-record victory in the 200-meter medley. Cynthia Woodhead was a threat to win six golds at Moscow; she has won twelve national titles. Like most of the veterans, she has survived a low period in which training and competition made no sense...
...STANLEY A Karnow '47, the old George Santayana quote, "Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it," rings only partly true Arthur Schlesinger Jr. '38's line is equally true he says that "Those who remember history are condemned to repeat...