Word: forgetability
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Anwar Gamall, a senior at Cairo University, wonders why Egyptian television is clogged with American serials like Charlie's Angels and Police Woman. "What relevance do they have to life in Egypt?" he asks. "What are Muslims supposed to do? Emulate those lifestyles? Forget Islam and become a plastic person?" Nadia Fatim, a student at the same university, wears a modified veil and a floor-length robe. Says she: "It is a matter of identity. If you dress and behave Western, then you are compelled to be Western. But if you give yourself to Islam...
...Alain and Georgette give actors a chance to have fun and ham it up a bit. Michael Cantor plays Alain with appropriate dopiness. Alice Brown, however, fails to take advantage of the comic potential of Georgette, reciting her lines flatly. When she is not speaking, Brown seems to forget she is onstage and watches the antics going on about her with almost complete detachment...
...casting a significant look in my direction. Her Dear Friend was no better, periodically contorting her facial muscles in expressions suggestive of profound empathy. I marveled at the speed with which, after speaking at such length in her flatulent way about the arrogated rights of the individual, she could forget her own preachings and attempt to make me into a stereotype...
Philadelphia fans will turn out in record numbers to see Pete and cheer for their first pennant since 1950. Rose, apparently, has fielding skills akin to those of Philadelphia's long line of horrendous first basemen (who can forget Dick "Dr. Strange-glove" Stuart...
...workers-may moderate their demands. But should the Teamsters gravely breach the guides, 3.3 million other union members whose contracts expire this year will probably feel free to go for broke. As one of the Administration's inflation fighters put it: "If we lose master freight, we can forget about Stage...