Word: vu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another aging American star also seemed to fade in Seoul's autumn light. America's best middle-distance runner ever, Mary Decker Slaney, 30, failed once again to win an Olympic gold medal. In her 3,000-meter heat, she gave everyone a surrealistic dose of deja vu by nearly tripping as she had in Los Angeles when she got her feet tangled with South African-born Zola Budd. Her time qualified her for the final, but did not put her in strong contention. In the deciding race she led the pack for several laps but faded long before...
...immediate reaction most of us had to last weekend's downing of an Iranian jetliner by a U.S. Navy warship was one of deja vu. The comparisons with the Soviet Union's shooting of a Korean Air Lines passenger plane with 269 people aboard over the Sea of Japan in 1983 proved too tempting to pass up: both passenger planes were off-course and reportedly did not (or could not) respond to military warnings, both superpowers ended up shooting down civilian planes and receiving world-wide condemnation for their action...
Vietnamese Boat Person Vu Thanh Thuy, at Marist College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.: "In fact, surprising as it may seem, the daily struggle of making a living in America is more difficult to cope with than all of the events we went through in prison and at sea. The reason is that there is nothing 'heroic' about surviving the never ending problems of daily life...
...without faults. Originally published as a scholarly work meant for purchase by libraries, Scheim's book reads laboriously, suffering from an odd and unhappy mixture of stilted, technical prose and journalistic colloquialisms. Moreover, Scheim recycles his evidence again and again, giving many passages an unwelcome sense of deja vu, and he includes much irrelevant information...
...deja-vu," Roger Berry said, "that it went the same way. It was like a nightmare...