An echo of "The Real World"?
There they conduct exercises in a simulated disaster zone which are an eerie echo of real tragedies: sniffer dogs scrabble over collapsed buildings and rescuers call out to potential survivors.
Under new signs saying "Real Choice, Real Change," an echo of Senator John Kerry's "real deal" slogan, Dr. Dean called for a ban on lobbyists' making campaign contributions, as he continued hammering the front-runner, Mr. Kerry, for accepting donations from lobbyists.
In an echo of the subprime real estate crisis, vehicle sales are now falling.
Our picketing and leafleting at Winged Foot, the Larchmont Yacht Club, and similar targets was a faint suburban echo of real civil rights campaigning down south.
Then there's the PowerPoint module, which is only a shadow of an echo of a memory of the real thing.
The large screen was rolled away, and we were confronted more powerfully than before by the hollow echo of real life; the finality of Malik Sealy's death at age 30.
"You're still a real cowboy" -- an echo of Debra Winger's line in "Urban Cowboy," "Are you a real cowboy?" This theme of wardrobe as destiny reappears in "Hannah Mae O'Hannigan's Wild West Show," by Lisa Campbell Ernst.
By the time Huler comes home to his loving wife, just in time for the birth of their son — an echo of Odysseus' return to Penelope — Huler's real-life epiphanies outweigh his sometimes wince-inducing turns of phrase.
The security considerations are real, but, to me, this feels like an echo of Egypt: the United States curries favor with a dictator and ignores public yearning for change.
