Word: amnesia
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...bizarre interior--a slit in a wall recalls a sniper's nest, and tables are set with memorial photos of yesteryear's entertainers--echoes war and death. "Some people want a postcard version of our history, with no reference to the war," he says. "I don't agree. Amnesia can be dangerous...
...provided a welcome break from my increasingly constraining marriage. I was in the trenches for two years before my entire company was destroyed and temporary amnesia forced me to wander aimlessly through Europe searching for answers that never existed. It was here that I picked up smoking and mendacity. My only acquaintance was Lt. Slothrop, a rotund and oversexed Harvard alumnus who happened to be an AWOL American...
...present conflict in Sept. 2000 when he visited a Muslim holy site with 1,000 armed soldiers. But hatred toward Sharon stems primarily from his role in the 1982 Sabra and Chatila massacres, which left 2,000 women and children dead. While most Western newspapers suffer from a convenient amnesia when it comes to Sharon’s brutal past, Palestinians will not easily forget...
...ambitious Charlotte Swenson, a model who will do almost anything to gain entrance into “the mirrored room,” a magical place whose inhabitants embody success and fame. Her failure to revive her modeling career leads her to alcoholism, a sort of selective amnesia and depression. Desperate to attain her dream, Charlotte signs on to a new commercial venture best described as the Internet version of “The Real World” or The Truman Show. As the project takes on a life of its own, nurtured by the public’s insatiable...
...someone to talk to. And then she came and told me that I had experienced a trauma and that the extra-strength-for-trauma sleeping pills would make it better. I must admit that sleeping for a change was nice. But I couldn’t help thinking that amnesia would be better...