Word: vu
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...ever have deja vu...
...most folks, deja vu may provoke a momentary shudder, the creepy sense of having sidestepped into the twilight zone. For Hollywood, though, it is a guiding principle. The industry wants audiences to feel they have seen this ( thing before but don't know where or when. Nearly every movie plot is a reprise of a story that has already worked. Recombinant familiarity means box office; originality is an orphan, subversive and suspect...
...cheer the emergence of Groundhog Day, a very original comedy about deja vu. A Pittsburgh weatherman (Bill Murray) visits Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, home of the Groundhog Day Festival, and finds himself forced to relive that particular Feb. 2 over and over, maybe forever -- or at least until he gets it right. You might describe the film as Son of The Exterminating Angel (1963), Luis Bunuel's surrealist movie prank about a dinner party no one can leave. But, not to worry, it ends up as It's a Wonderful Life. And it has Murray, who, ever since his debut on Saturday...
...General, the White House floated the name of New York Federal District Judge Kimba Wood to coax any opposition out into the open. When none emerged, word leaked from the White House that the Wood nomination was almost a sure thing. Then last Friday night came the awful deja vu. Again, a woman withdrew her name from consideration for the post. Again, the conflict involved an illegal alien. Again, an acute embarrassment for the Clinton Administration...
...discussion will address issues such as science education from a student's perspective and the lack of women and minorities in science careers, Vu said...