Word: vu
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That may be because it smacks of deja vu. What the proposal inevitably brought to mind was the 1968 Kerner Commission, probably the most famous government panel after the Warren Commission. Formed to examine why riots had hit more than a dozen American cities in the mid-1960s, it famously prophesied the world we verge on: "Our Nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white--separate and unequal...
Farces as a rule employ well-worn props. Even so, Moon over Buffalo has an especially familiar feel. To see it once is almost to see it twice, given how much daje vu is involved. You recognize this comic turn from Kiss Me, Kate, that one from a Preston Sturges film. But Ludwig has a gift for making the conventional convivial. Whether you know it or not, you have spent your share of mornings in '50s Buffalo. And you had a good time there...
Then came the outdoor season, which essentially was a big case of deja vu. Early on, Harvard finished third in a meet, this time in a triangular with Brown and Dartmouth. The Crimson kicked the Elis' behind (100-45) and finished fourth in the Heptagonals...
...game began like many other Crimson-Big Green games--with Harvard jumping out to a lead. Co-captain Megan Colligan scored 26 seconds into the game, and junior Sara Noonan tallied seven minutes later. That put Harvard up 2-0, and it looked like deja vu all over again...
After this goal, the scoring stopped for a while, until there was a little bit of deja vu for Harvard...