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...unpromising conceit. Robin Williams is a Peter Unprincipled, grounded in all the latest guilts and anxieties. He has a new surname (Banning) and a wife and two kids he neglects, owing to the press of the greed business. He is also afflicted by a convenient case of amnesia. He knows he's an orphan, but he can't remember anything that happened before "Gran Wendy" (Maggie Smith) arranged for his adoption by an American couple. Namely, he can't remember that he passed his preadolescent years wearing a little green tunic and a silly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spoiled Brainchild | 12/16/1991 | See Source »

Even when misfortune befalls others, it is the woman who seems to bear the burden. In ABC's Stranger in the Family, a teenager is stricken with amnesia after an auto accident. But the drama focuses on his mother (Teri Garr) and her efforts to recapture her "lost" son. In CBS's My Son Johnny, Rick Schroder plays a small-time hood who has brutalized his younger brother from childhood. Again, Mom (Michele Lee) is the star sufferer: she is forced to recognize that she has raised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oh, The Agony! The Ratings! | 11/11/1991 | See Source »

Like most drugs, however, Halcion has a dark side after all. In the mid- 1980s, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration began receiving more and more reports of side effects from the drug -- everything from amnesia to agitation. The increase could be explained by the rising number of people taking Halcion, but the drug got some bad publicity when a Utah woman killed her mother while on Halcion and sued the manufacturer. Upjohn settled the case out of court, all the while denying that the drug was to blame for the murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Dark Side of Halcion | 10/14/1991 | See Source »

...Develop amnesia...

Author: By Jordan Schreiber, | Title: Eight Easy Steps | 10/2/1991 | See Source »

...behind them a war that came by surprise, and mercifully ended before it could create a new generation of martyrs. It is because their sons and daughters were spared that people will line the streets while the soldiers pass by, but that should not be mistaken for gloating, or amnesia, or indifference to the suffering that continues in the shadow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's Postwar Mood: Making Sense of The Storm | 6/17/1991 | See Source »

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