Word: replaying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this, since the arrival of Mussolini was greeted with rapture by so many leading artists and intellectuals. The Fascist rhetoric of dynamism and machine efficiency meshed with (and was partly inspired by) that of futurism; while the Duce's promise of a renewed empire, a "third Rome" that would replay the Augustan past, had immediate appeal to nostalgists like De Chirico, Carra and even Giorgio Morandi...
When the Eastern machinists union decided to strike last week, it had all the makings of a 1981 air traffic controllers replay: union strikes, president orders them back to work, union refuses, president fires them, hires new workers, airlines continue normal service...
Unfortunately, the raquetwomen won't have a chance to replay that fateful game which ended the Crimson's 16-match winning streak. The Tigers won, 6-3, in an intense, competitive contest. The Tiger's number-one player, Demer Holleran, sister of Harvard's Jenny Holleran, had no sisterly compassion. She blanked number-one seed Jenny in three quick games...
...deficit. Said a philosophical Dukakis: "There comes a time when you have to let go." His withdrawal fueled speculation that Dukakis wants to avenge his stinging loss to George Bush last November by mounting another, probably unwelcome, presidential bid in 1992. The Governor refused to rule out such a replay, coyly observing, "I've learned -- occasionally painfully -- never to say never in politics...
...neck sweater and jogging shoes. He saunters in his freighted way across the grass toward the boys, and then, without transition, starts idly toeing a soccer ball toward them, again in that curious slow-motion way he has, his body doing not the act itself but the slo-mo replay. The photographers click away. Dukakis, one thinks, may have made a mistake -- in his outfit, with his large head, he looks like Charlie Brown, and something in his almost rueful body English suggests that Lucy is about to snatch the ball away again just as he kicks. Unfair: a reporter...