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...sticks his head in Dr. M.'s apparatus--an Ed Wood--style space helmet mixed with a hair dryer--but, as his mind swims through the memory-erasure process, he decides that even the rotten memories of Clem are worth treasuring. How to stop all this, escape from Camp Brainwash, especially when the doc's klutzy technicians (Mark Ruffalo, Elijah Wood, Kirsten Dunst) are more attentive to their own weird erotic vectors than to the fellow whose love affair they are extracting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Do I Love You? (I Forget) | 3/22/2004 | See Source »

...only regret is that my father couldn’t come here because he couldn’t get a passport to travel because my husband is blacklisted so they are afraid he will brainwash him,” Fu says. “So my parents were separated for three years and never saw each other again...

Author: By Romina Garber, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Wife of Jailed Activist Keeps Hope | 3/31/2003 | See Source »

...peace process with Israel and only a minority endorsing suicide bombings. Thus, in their headhunting, the fundamentalists were limited to stalwart followers of their doctrine, which holds that any kind of peace with Israel is anathema. Even then, Hamas and Islamic Jihad had to cajole--some might say brainwash--young men into believing that the rewards of paradise outweighed the prospects of life on earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Suicide Bombing... ...Is Now All The Rage | 4/15/2002 | See Source »

During his time at the OSS, according to his former colleagues, Murray was obsessed with mind control and used LSD, among other drugs, attempting to determine how to brainwash subjects. Murray presented his findings after taking LSD at an international conference in Copenhagen...

Author: By Kirsten G. Studlien, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Murray Center Seals Kaczynski Data | 7/14/2000 | See Source »

Anime may never saturate the U.S. market as it has the Japanese. But to brainwash kids into Pokemania, to get Cameron and Coppola looking eastward and to win a pledge of hands off from Harvey Weinstein...well, it's a start...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amazing Anime | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

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