Word: amnesiaize
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...struggles to save the world in Richard Kelly’s “Southland Tales.” Played by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson (“The Scorpion King”), Santaros mysteriously turns up at the beginning of the film with amnesia. He’s a movie star who co-writes a screenplay (with a porn star, no less) about the end of the world as we know it. What Santaros and his co-writer don’t realize, however, is that they have unwittingly predicted the real apocalypse...
...still plays his father's Bechstein, Sacks has a strong empathy for the loss suffered by the many neurally damaged musicians who have found their way to him. Most touching of all is his tale of Clive Wearing, an English musician stricken in 1985 with a post-brain-infection amnesia so devastating that from one minute to the next he does not know who, where or what he is. At 69, just two things are unscathed in his inner life: a profound love for his wife and the ability to sing or play on the piano any piece of music...
...Despite the devastation of the 2004-2005 season, one mild season in 2006 has plunged Americans in hurricane-vulnerable states into a dangerous amnesia," said Ron Sachs, executive director of the National Hurricane Survival Initiative, a public education and safety outreach partnership between government organizations, relief agencies and corporations. The initiative works with the National Hurricane Center, FEMA, The National Emergency Management Association, the Salvation Army and the State of North Carolina, as well as corporate partners including Travelers, Plylox...
Nigerian author Wole Soyinka, the first African to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, argued that the Arab section of Sudan must confront its past and acknowledge its role in the violence in Darfur instead of remaining in a “state of amnesia.” In a speech last night called “Darfur: Anything to do with Slavery?” Soyinka addressed the ongoing violence that has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths and millions of displaced refugees. Soyinka argued that Arabs played a historic role in the African slave trade...
...unusual study published this month, researchers at Harvard Medical School have claimed that the psychiatric disorder known as dissociative amnesia, or repressed memory, is a “culture-bound syndrome,” and has no scientific basis. Their argument is based on the conclusion that no evidence for the existence of repressed memory exists in literature, fiction or non-fiction, before 1800—while other psychological disorders like epilepsy and schizophrenia have been documented since ancient times. Since the onset of their literary quest over a year ago, the researchers at Harvard-affiliated Mclean hospital have promised...