Word: forgets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...theme of Silent Sins is hard to miss. The playbill includes two inserts, one citing FBI statistics on violence done to women, and another quoting Psalm 55 ("Cast your burden on the Lord..."). The production never lets you forget this is a women's play...
...play's message is not as subtle as its movement. The director, divinity student Laureen Smith, who wrote the play, cannot resist turning every intimate exchange between husband and wife into a scathing condemnation of a society that silently condones the exploitation of women. Least the audience forget, Smith periodically sends a bruised woman across the stage to state haltingly that beatings are simply a marital duty...
...movement. We think that as long as the consul had at least one way of leaving the room, he maintained his freedom to move. We kept open the way that would force the vice-consul to engage the protesters outside and defend his country's policies. Don't forget though, that the consul merely had to ask, and the blockaders would have let him leave by the lower doors...
...currency swap? Company officials say they want to create a "total environment" that makes visitors forget the outside world. Perhaps they also figure that customers will keep excess Disney dough as a memento, rather than cash...
...Setting another precedent, President Chaim Herzog became the first Israeli head of state to visit West Germany. At the site of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, which he helped liberate in 1945 as an officer in the British army, Herzog said, "I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are the dead. The living have no right to forget." Despite the agonizing memories, Herzog hailed West Germany as "one of our closest friends." That was more than mere rhetoric. Today the Federal Republic is Israel's leading European trading partner...