Word: amnesia
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...power...a country that countenances torture,” Zinn said. Zinn also stressed the importance of learning history to building an informed citizenry. “If people learn history, then they react to the people in power with great skepticism. People in power depend on our historical amnesia,” he said. An estimated 200 people turned out for last night’s event, compared to a weekly average of 60 to 80, Cambridge Forum Board President Ann Daily said. “He’s just such an icon,” she said...
...suspect that they'll have some fun with Snakes on a Plane. The director, David R. Ellis, is not exactly Alfred Hitchcock - he's often messy in his stagings - but as his picture rattles along its thrill-a-minute flight plan he does manage to induce a certain amnesia about its preposterous premise...
...Long Night, with Anthony Quinn as a non-Hammer hero with amnesia, is a drab affair, and My Gun Is Quick buried its chance at B-minus competence with another unknown, inapt Hammer, Robert Bray. You might say that Spillane should always have played him, as he does in the 1963 The Girl Hunters. (Richard Wright, of Native Son fame, is the only other best-selling novelist I know who played his own major character in a movie. Anyone know others?) But that would be to overrate Spillane's hulking amateurism. He has fun in the movie, but maneuvers only...
...family trying to cope with the accidental death of a son. It was that film that may have marked the real watershed in Moretti's career. Until then, he had essentially played himself in nearly all his dozen-plus movies, even when the protagonist was a famous politician with amnesia (Palombella Rossa, or Red Wood Pigeon) or a local priest with anger-management issues (La Messa è Finita, or The Mass has Ended). Moretti's serial use of a humorous, self-referencing onscreen persona - and one plagued with late 20th century, middle-class angst - has drawn inevitable comparisons to Woody...
...third committee option should have been clear in light of the “what should a third committee do” discourse in the past few weeks, and the proposal of an OSC in spite of this reality suggests that UC members were struck with a pretentious amnesia of one simple fact: The UC exists to serve a function, functions don’t exist to serve the UC.Since the UC refuses to redress their ineptitude when it comes to restructuring, students should do so. We call on students to exercise their constitutional right to organize a petition...