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Word: reminders (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tenth birthday is the U.S.'s 180th, and his hometown of Massapequa, N.Y., is parading its patriotism down Main Street. Disabled veterans are wheeled out, including one (played by the real Kovic, co-author of the film's screenplay) who flinches at the sound of a firecracker. It must remind him of a war that demands elegies. But young Ron -- too busy watching skyrockets that night to pay attention to a first kiss from his precocious friend Donna -- sees organized gunplay as the short road to manly glory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tom Terrific | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

...gathering came six months after the University agreed in an out-of court settlement to a suit filed several years ago that it would remind first-year residents to keep noise levels to a minimum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Greenough Meeting Warns Frosh of Noise | 12/16/1989 | See Source »

...alone a second. Israeli leaders insisted the rebellion would be quickly crushed. But a second year without a settlement pays credit to the Palestinians' remarkable endurance and ingenuity. Armed with stones and Molotov cocktails, Arab youths have managed to confound the Israeli army, regain their tattered pride, and remind the world that Israel's "enlightened" occupation is a painful contradiction in terms. Yet many Palestinians fear their revolution has stalled. Mass demonstrations have given way to smaller skirmishes waged by a hard-core group of activists, and Israel has yet to concede so much as an inch of land. Meanwhile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East Still Stuck in the Stone Age | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

...purpose of the hay arrangement was to bring out the temporary quality of built form, according to Umminger. "The original idea was to remind people of how no architectural thing is permanent and to emphasize how arrangements of space change over time," he said...

Author: By Francesca E. Bignami, | Title: The Quad Hits the Hay: 100 Bales Become Art | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

Beddoes, who once said "nature exists to remind us of our mortality, the more poisonous the better," committed suicide in a hotel room by taking a dose of poison, Ashbery said...

Author: By Christine A. Deleo, | Title: Ashbery Describes Death In Poetry of Beddoes | 11/30/1989 | See Source »

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