Set in the form of various almost Zen-like answers to the question "Mama, what is snow?," the panorama of wordplay that follows ("Call it Kitten when it sleeps in the crook of a window... Eyelet when it embroiders spruce... Tradition when it comes on Christmas") reminds me of Wallace Stevens's "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird".
The article "Making Order Out of Chaos When a Crowd Goes Wild" (March 7) reminds me of the wave phenomenon at football games in Ann Arbor, Mich., and no doubt elsewhere.
What pitcher today reminds you of yourself?
Rob Bishop, the departing state party chairman, shook his head today when reminded of the scene last year.
To the Editor: "In Tequila's Home, a Wine Region Comes of Age," by Janelle Brown (May 1), reminded me of when I was on assignment in Tampico, Mexico, in 1970.
(Sept . 13 reminded me that when I was living in Warsaw in the early '80s, I read that the first business to open in the city after the war was a flower shop.
I was still waiting when Bedford's "Quicksands" arrived, in 2005, reminding me that, in matters of the cost to conscience of survival, Bedford and Gunther might well be kindred spirits.
Ballet, at this level, is a belief system, and the Bolshoi, for all its corruption and its vicious infighting (of which we were reminded when, last Monday night, the company's acid-blinded director Sergei Filin was led on to the Covent Garden stage), remains one of its cathedrals.
Samuel Johnson said that Bravery has no place when it can avail nothing. This Thanksgiving reminded me that America remains the home of the brave.
He said this week when reminded of the Perry record that he would like to finish his career with 200 wins in grand slams.
