Word: amnesiaize
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...bromance--that thriving genre of the male-bonding comedy--expands geometrically and devolves predictably in The Hangover, a buddy farce designed to attract the lonely teen boys who think they're too cool for a Will Ferrell dinosaur movie. Taking the multiple-amnesia theme from the 2006 melodrama Unknown and referencing about a dozen movies set in Las Vegas, it revels in the hectic display of rude elements (sexual and ethnic stereotyping, pedophile gags, inappropriate people with their pants off) that have made the form as rigid in its conventions as Kabuki theater...
...Back in 2006 the film Unknown threw five men into a dungeon and robbed them all of any recollection of how they got there. The Hangover takes this scientifically suspicious multiple-amnesia gimmick, references about a dozen Vegas movies (from Leaving Las... to What Happens in... to Rain Man) and applies all the numbingly familiar tropes of the bromance comedy that have made this flourishing subgenre as rigid in its conventions as Kabuki theater...
...Wall Street Journal editorial leading up the 2006 gubernatorial election accused him of “denying, dissembling and developing convenient cases of amnesia,” in the face of accusations of abuse in office as attorney general. A 2007 New Yorker feature labeled the then-newly elected Governor Spitzer as an “aggressive personality with an ambitious agenda...
...million in the U.S. last year. Most people shake them off, but many don't. The signs of a serious hit are a headache that gets worse, confusion, disorientation and vomiting. Slurred speech, sleepiness, a droopy eye and clumsiness are also signals, as is any kind of amnesia. And the signs may not be obvious. "They gradually progress," says Dr. Carmelo Graffagnino, director of the neuroscience critical-care unit at Duke University. "Then suddenly it gets to the critical point that a person can't be woken...
...irrational fanatics who will show up no matter what. On the other hand though, it always seems that, with Michael Jackson, he is able to let just enough time pass before emerging once again. He does so when even the most fanatical supporters cannot keep him afloat, allowing public amnesia to expurgate the immediacy of his sins.After time has passed, these fans (and perhaps even you and I) are somehow able to reconcile his completely reprehensible and inhuman actions with the feel-good catchiness of “Billie Jean” or “Thriller...