When her character loses it in an early scene in "Never Again" - humiliating herself and embarrassing those around her - it is an instant reminder that few actresses play single, emotionally frayed women as well as she does.

But, to many of 270 Japanese among the passengers, the incident was an instant reminder of a China Airlines Airbus crash at Nagoya airport, central Japan, exactly one month earlier.

The chauffeur's face - his uniform were instant reminders.

Each one is an instant reminder of Henri Cartier-Bresson's most famous photograph, "Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare, 1932."

The hollow, amplified echo of miked feet was an instant reminder of why flamenco in large theaters is often a letdown.

It's an instant reminder of that show's taste for navel-gazing, since it takes a potentially small, delicate story and overloads every bit of the tale.

The operative asked, kicking Beckett flat in the face with a boot, an instant reminder of the back fist he'd received the night before.

Atop a tall spire, not quite as far in the desert distance as I would like is an instant reminder that I live in a country with the seventh largest oil reserve.

But there will be an instant reminder of the judging scandal - not only does the pairs competition open the skating on Saturday, it will also serve as the Olympic unveiling of the scoring system created to fix the corruption.

Fortunately, she drops it at the feet of a rich, handsome single man she calls Mr. Big (Christopher Noth), who serves as an instant reminder that her heart can still flutter.