This was driven home this fall, when the share price of the Hartford, a huge underwriter of annuities, fell to nearly $4 from more than $60.
This was driven home in a telephone interview when Harold was informed that his younger brother would be starting for the Jets on Monday.
This was driven home just before the series began, when an unidentified bigot sprayed the word "nigger" in unsteady letters — these types never have good penmanship, I've noticed — across the gate outside LeBron's home, in Los Angeles.
This was driven home when a woman in a fancy food shop in the Hamptons asked, "Goodness, what breed of dog might this be?" "A goldendoodle!" my wife replied.
This was driven home to Mrs. Wilson about eight years ago, when she was nine months pregnant, working as an English teacher here at Horace Greeley High and tutoring a handful of students privately for the SAT.
This was driven home last October when the season-ending championships, the Breeders' Cup, was eclipsed by the investigation and subsequent guilty pleas of three former fraternity brothers who had rigged a more than $3 million pick-six payoff by manipulating the computer system of the company that processed the bet, Autotote.
All this was driven home to me when Dr. Brian Murphy gave up part of his Sunday to guide me through a visit to Capital Hospice, which serves various parts of the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
This was driven home in the latest IPCC report, which concluded that throughout the 21st century, climate change will "slow down economic growth, further erode food security and trigger new poverty traps".
This was driven home in the now-classic scene where Wyatt and Billy Peterr Fonda and Dennis Hopper) get country lawyer George Hanson Jack Nicholsonn, in his star-making role) high for the first time ("Marijuana! Is that what that is?"), followed by George/Jack's brilliantly stony monologue about how aliens are living and breeding among us.
This point is driven home by the suavely eye-popping new paintings in Mr. Taaffe's latest show at the uptown Gagosian Gallery.
