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...Iliads. Those imaginations sometimes indulge crazy fantasies of revenge and annihilating vindication. The vulnerability, anger and extreme fantasies of children have been a constant over the centuries, I think. The late 20th century has not reinvented human nature, even though American perfectionism, in league with what is perhaps the amnesia of the dollar people on the subject of human tragedy, may encourage that illusion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tragedy as Child's Play | 4/6/1998 | See Source »

...left behind. Two weeks at the seashore appear, in memory, as a floodlit Oz. The first airplane ride might have been to Venus. The early hours spent with radio, TV and films are the foundation of adult imagination. Yet when children grow up, they suffer some sad amnesia of taste. How else could former kids provide television programs designed to do nothing with time but kill it--as if, in Thoreau's phrase, it were possible to kill time without injuring eternity? From the moment it was old enough to earn money, U.S. television has been squandering the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1960-1973 Revolution | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

HALCION DAYS A new independent study says the sleeping pill Halcion is safe and effective when used as recommended. But taking it longer or at higher dosages merits study of possible side effects like amnesia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Nov. 24, 1997 | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

...Anya," struggles to find her identity. She eventually runs into Dimitri, a former palace servant-turned-leading man, who is looking for someone to pretend to be the princess so that he can reap a reward from Anastasia's surviving grandmother. Amidst all this, Anastasia must deal with her amnesia (which seems a strange perversion of repressed memory syndrome) and with the pesky Rasputin who rises from Hell in order to destroy the last heir of the Romanovs...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Lavish Animation, Shallow Characters for Fox's 'Anastasia' | 11/21/1997 | See Source »

Suffering from amnesia about her pre-Revolutionary childhood, she is raised near Petrograd as an orphan named Anya, rather than being brutally murdered by the Bolsheviks. Indeed, the Fox flick barely mentions that neither Anastasia's parents nor siblings survived the Revolution. Running into a pair of con artists--who, in Fox's twist on history, are looking for an Anastasia impostor to claim the Romanov fortune--Anya leaves cold, miserable Russia and discovers her own identity as Anastasia as everything ends up happy in Paris...

Author: By Adam J. Levitin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Rape of Clio: Reconciling Art and History | 11/21/1997 | See Source »

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