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...American mind. If time has moved on, it has also receded, in a psychological sense. Seven years ago, the war seemed much further away than it does now. During a long period in the '70s, the nation indulged in a remarkable exercise of recoil and denial and amnesia about Viet Nam. Americans did not want to hear about it, to think about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Viet Nam: A Bloody Rite of Passage | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

...head. Suffer amnesia. Exchange identities with the desperately sought Susan (played by Madonna, whose affectlessness in the face of adversity may or may not constitute acting but is marvelously comic). Find herself pursued by one of organized crime's less organized branches. Fall into a loft and a love affair with the projectionist from a kung fu grind house. Find work as a gloriously addled magician's assistant. Get mistaken by the police for a prostitute. In other words, there is more to Roberta's modest attempt at an afternoon's adventure than she bargained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Beautiful Dreamer in a Minefield Desperately Seeking Susan | 4/1/1985 | See Source »

...much the same way, democracies view history with selective amnesia. "As things are now . . . only the West's failures, crimes and weaknesses deserve to be recorded by history," says Revel, while totalitarian reality "is what Soviet leaders are preparing to do now" in the way of promised reforms or concessions. Memories of capitalism's Great Depression endure, while the deaths of millions during forced Soviet collectivization in the same period do not. Viet Nam remains fresh in the mind; the Marxist bloodbaths of Lieut. Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam in Ethiopia during the late 1970s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: The Case for Pessimism | 12/3/1984 | See Source »

...Rebecca Ryan award luncheon in Paris, Palmer and fate (in the guise of a Citreon) collide in front of Notre Dame, Exit verisimilitude and enter that soap opera mainstay, selective amnesia. Palmer wakes up in a hospital, without her handbag, thinking that she is Rebecca Ryan...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: We'll Always Have Paris... | 10/27/1984 | See Source »

...League graduates, blessed by a heartening amnesia about the seige mentality which surrounds exams, the 15 pounds they gained from freshman angst, and the sheer impossibility of finding good help in university towns, have an otherwise-baffling tendency to remember their college stint as the best years of their lives. Given the smartening-up students undergo as they are railroaded into their first "real" jobs, however, their university years are rarely their best-dressed. But what collegians lack in baroque splendor, they more than make up for with a plethora of youth and freshness that the most jaded New York...

Author: By Lorna Koski, | Title: Studying the Classics | 3/9/1984 | See Source »

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