Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...against a team that had lost six of its last seven games coming into Saturday's match, the Crimson should have been confident after one of their best starts all season. But in a scene familiar to Harvard soccer fans, the team hit the self-destruct button only minutes later...
Americans may not follow the logic. Yet Abdi's words are more encouraging than the all-too-familiar ones scrawled across the wall of the former U.S. embassy. The pine-shaded, 27-acre compound has been occupied since the early '80s by Revolutionary Guards, who use part of it as a high school. Next to a mural of the Statue of Liberty, styled as a ghoulish skeleton, is the freshly painted warning: WE WILL MAKE AMERICA FACE A SEVERE DEFEAT...
...cartoon television series and recent movie, features a funny but foulmouthed cast of characters and an infinite collection of toilet jokes. The South Park video game got to the shelves but not the film. Reason: Wal-Mart's game buyer figured that customers who purchase it are already familiar with the characters. The video buyer, on the other hand, believed that customers associate animated films with movies such as Bambi and not with Cartman and his profane pals. (No doubt the boys would have joyously killed and consumed Bambi...
...foreign film opens today across the country, and to some it might seem oddly familiar. Winner of numerous international film awards, including Italy's prestigious Donotello for Best Foreign Language Film and the Sundance Film Festival Audience Award, Train of Life is yet another foray into the human condition during the events of World War II. Director and writer Radu Mihaileanu presents the humorous story of an Eastern European Jewish shtetl (village) and its fantastic escape from the Nazis on a fake deportation train they build themselves. Never mind that it was historically impossible for such an event to have...
...winter sets in," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "They see it as a trap, because winter will hamper the Russian attack helicopters and allow the Chechens to wage a more effective guerrilla campaign." Then again, Russian commanders may be tempted to test whether the Chechens' by now familiar "We have not yet begun to fight" mantra isn't simply bravado designed to cover up heavy losses...