Word: replaying
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...while last week, something in the national mood appeared to be turning darkly against Arab Americans--at least for as long as it was supposed that the Oklahoma blast might be the work of Islamic terrorists. In a replay of the harassment they suffered during the Gulf War, mosques reported receiving telephone threats. On Larry King Live, former Oklahoma Congressman Dave McCurdy pointed to an Islamic conference, full of fire-breathing rhetoric that was held in Oklahoma City in 1992. That was one reason, he said, that he knew terrorism "could happen here...
Yesterday, however, was a day the Crimson would love to forget or replay. Of course that won't happen...
...whistles, nightmarish soft tones bent with the whammy bar, a brief display of pyrotechnics and then silence as the song ends and the world becomes trite again. There is a beautiful moment of absurdity preserved forever on record after "Machine Gun" ends when a lisping voice intones the pathetic replay to Hendirx' forceful musical statement: "No bullets...
...Simpson trial has reduced the humanistic principles and complex philosophy of American justice to blood sport. Television does its part, contributing instant replay, analysis and gladiatorial theme music. The print media join in, all of them reduced to tabloids in their feeding frenzy. This trial should be taking place in the Los Angeles Coliseum, where the resemblance to a Roman circus would be unmistakable and the masses could seal O.J.'s fate with a simple thumbs-up or thumbs-down...
Such scenes have been filling the airwaves like instant replay: four times in the past year, Palestinian militants have slipped into Israel and set off bombs killing a total of 60 and injuring 194. But Israel's agony is palpably greater over this latest atrocity. These victims were so young: all but one of the 21 dead Israelis were between the ages of 18 and 24. And all except one were soldiers, mainly members of the vanguard paratroopers unit. That may have made the attack seem like a legitimate act of guerrilla warfare to Palestinians. But the act of terror...