Word: vu
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...failure of Congressional representation has been said before. Countless magazine articles, seminar papers, Ph.D. dissertations, and at least one popular study--The Cast Against Congress by Drew Pearson and Jack Anderson--have documented the malfunctions and weaknesses on Capitol Hill. But Riegle gives us substantially more than a deja vu montage of liberal opinion. He enables us to experience the tensions and frustrating re-orientation that ultimately demoted him from one of Newsweek's "five young men to watch in the Seventies" and a Nixon favorite...
...first there is usually an uncomfortable sense of déjà vu. Then there is an angry feeling of having been cheated. Then, perhaps, there is a sigh of resignation. Whatever the symptoms, the syndrome affects all regular TV viewers who discover, sometimes as early as February, that their favorite shows are in reruns. Now even President Nixon is aware of the syndrome and is using his influence as the nation's No. 1 viewer to try to force the networks to limit the number of reruns...
Whether because of youth or ignorance, Kozo Okamoto, 24, seemed not to comprehend last week the sober déja vu of his appearance before a military tribunal in a barracks near Tel Aviv. Okamoto stood before the three-officer court accused in the killing of 26 people and the wounding of 72 others in a terrorist attack at Tel Aviv's Lod International Airport in which his two accomplices were also killed (TIME, June 12). The circumstances, however -a stern tribunal, spartan courtroom, TV lights, well-frisked audience of international journalists-replayed the surroundings in which Adolf Eichmann...
...last U.S. advisers had been helicoptered out. Immediately, the Communists set up a "revolutionary administration" in the city. South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu angrily relieved both the commander of Military Region I, General Hoang Xuan Lam, and the 3rd Division's commander, General Vu Van Giai. No replacement was named for Giai; there was no 3rd Division left...
...earlier material seems necessary, even when some of the new directions promise to be less consequential; attempts to reawaken the old are simply unsuccessful. "Give a Damn," a "talking song" on Paul and was a theme song for the Urban Coalition. It evokes, above all, a sense of deja vu. Its point is that arm-chair liberals are hypocrites--not an especially novel insight...