we've already mentioned our blast-from-the-past reminder of Pez dispensers, thanks to the display at the American Visionary Arts Musuem in Baltimore and the again at the second display at Paper Moon Diner.
Every few minutes, a Metro-North railroad train traveling north on the New Haven line screamed past, a reminder of the sprawling city that lay just beyond the park.
Inside Hoover Dam, manager Cook walked past a reminder of the trouble he faces: a sign posted on a bulletin board listing decades of Lake Mead elevations.
If the response of politicians and public institutions to this fire turns out to be anything like their response to comparable calamities in the past, the reminder will soon be forgotten.The Philippines has become much too accustomed to the sight of corpses lined up in rows after a disaster.
In several interviews last week inside and outside the Police Department, those who talked about the detectives' deaths said that the shootings seemed like a dispatch from a distant past, a reminder of an older kind of reality -- no less tragic than Sept. 11, but different.
That evening he gives a rousing speech near his constituency in South Shields in a building that once housed a cooperative society and is now a museum of the city's industrial past (a reminder that movements for change are nothing new and rely on jobs as much as sentiment).
In an era when the trend in restaurants is toward sleek minimalism, Bouley is a thrilling blast from the gaudy past, a reminder of how much pleasure can be had just from being tucked into such opulent chambers and attended with such formal manners.
As some passengers leave the station ready to return the following day, they walk past a reminder of days gone by: An old blue and yellow locomotive, the first one to roll on DR Congo's tracks.
They are victims of a certain moral blindness – which means every single black person, in the eyes of a racist, symbolizes a terrible crime from their ugly past, a reminder that their life is a fraud.
They are roadmaps to my past, constant reminders of the fights, but are they more than that?
The stories from Iran's present and past are reminders that freedom, democracy and human rights, or fundamentalism, fascism and terrorism are not geographically and culturally determined, but universal.
