Word: vu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Quoting from "Who am I?", a poem of the 1960's by Tru Vu, Bich said, "I am neither Communist or Nationalist--I am a Vietnamese...isn't that enough...
Sense of Déjà Vu. The fact was that many Americans last week felt a hopeless sense of déjà vu in all the talk about talks. Too many times the euphoria of peace "offensives" and "feelers" has ended in frustration. One year ago, North Viet Nam created a similar flurry of speculation by announcing that talks "could" begin if the U.S. stopped bombing for good. Nothing came of that, primarily because the North insisted that the basis for a settlement must be Hanoi's four-point program, which includes the demand that the internal...
...carpet, waiting to be introduced, stood the Cambodian court, the government elite, and the diplomatic corps, including representatives of many Communist countries. For Jacqueline Kennedy, fulfilling a long-held dream of visiting the fabled ruins of Angkor, there must also have been a sense of deja vu. Her reception in Cambodia rivaled any she had received when she was the wife of the President of the United States...
Galleries containing works by the artists of Spain, Japan and Italy are oddly disjointed and somehow déjà vu. Perhaps this is because, while Von Groschwitz visited many foreign countries, for economic reasons he has relied too often on sculptures already displayed in Manhattan galleries. Similarly, Brazil, Cuba, India, Mexico and the U.S.S.R. are represented by one artist apiece-a form of tokenism that might better have been bypassed...
...clock news has rolled by, audiences are ready to put their minds up in curlers and just plain relax. They have followed the puerile plot lines of the regular adventure and comedy programs only to find themselves despairing once again in the land of déjà vu. "In all these series," says Johnny Carson, "the characters are predictable, the dialogue is predictable, the format is predictable. The audience is interested in something where they don't know what's going to happen next...