Word: portent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dogs Go to Heaven, Bluth takes a vacation from portent and dips into anecdote. Listen for familiar echoes (Little Miss Marker, Heaven Can Wait, even Disney's 1988 cartoon Oliver & Company) in the story of Charlie, a German shepherd who is reprieved from death and befriends a little girl kidnaped by his scurvy old gang. Visually, the picture is swathed in Bluth's trademark golden browns and moody blues. Aurally, it's a reunion of the Burt Pack: Burt Reynolds is the voice of Charlie, Loni Anderson is the moll Flo, the exuberantly flustered Dom DeLuise is Charlie...
...summer's decision is an ominous portent of the future of the freedom of choice as the court prepares to hear more cases on the issue this fall--in any or all of which the Court could take away that constitutional right. Furthermore, proponents of choice now must send their message to the individual states, because the decision passed the debate to that forum as well...
...term-time job was portent for post-graduate life; when Harvard is reduced to a memory, we have to pick and choose what remains of its meaning. Most Harvard students, when asked where we go to school, reply Boston first, then Cambridge if coaxed, and only under extreme pressure do we say Harvard. Upon graduation, are we going to buy into the legend, sporting the sweatshirt and ring, joining the Harvard club? Or are we going to lead our lives away from school connections and attitudes, continue to say we went to school simply "in Boston...
This was a portent of difficulties to follow...
...jumped to a 6-2 lead. But Harvard watched that lead dwindle in the final two minutes of the game. By the time the game was over, the Crimson was hanging on to a 6-5 victory. Its gutsy grip on victory was inspiring. But the game was a portent of the rest of the season--the Crimson fizzled in the ECAC playoffs...