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...real problem with G.I. Joe’s lack of a gas mask is the denial it shows on the part of parents (and society) in thinking that these threats are something that can be covered up. If Saddam Hussein uses these types of weapons, there will be nothing more irrelevant than a G.I. Joe without a gas mask. When American soldiers are killed by these poison gases, it will not be possible to shield children from the horrors of chemical and biological warfare. And this is a reality that we don’t seem ready to accept...
...saying, Idealize as much as you want, but shun denial. The necessary other side of the ideal beauty of Leonardo's Mona Lisa or Cecilia Gallerani was the ugliness of his grotesqueries--an ugliness that disintegrates all possibility of desire and has something mockingly demonic, not just medical, about it. To see his grotesques as the mere play of a mind tinged with sadism is to misunderstand them. They are an essential part of the impulse that turned Leonardo toward an attachment to beauty as a kind of saving principle...
Harvard students like her are in denial about the political and economic subjugation of the bulk of the population by the richest one percent because class distinctions are taboo at the College. You don’t believe me? Then like President Bush, you too are in denial...
...characters in the play-within-the-play are siblings who have rarely left their own house since witnessing their parents’ murder-suicide. In denial for decades, they have confined themselves to a dilapidated estate in New Bethesda, Md. where “the sunflowers have overgrown the exterior...
...TIME: Have you been back to Bali since Oct. 12? James: Yes. The people of Bali are in total denial. When they find out I'm a travel writer, they say, "Tell them it's safe. Tell them we had nothing to do with the bomb." It will take a couple of years for Bali to come back?assuming the security situation improves. But it's never wise to look too far ahead...