Word: forgets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...often hear from Jewish Americans about the Holocaust and about how we must never let it happen again lest people forget. But, alas, look at Bosnia, where there is so much ethnic cleansing happening it is a virtual repeat of World War II. The problem with invoking the Jewish Holocaust for historical memory--in connection with Santayana's quote--is that it can never happen again without being noticed. People will never forget it, and therefore, it never will happen again, at least not on the scale of Nazi Germany...
...Riley Outdone--Forget Three-Peat, It's Time for Six-Peat...
...anything short of victory for Gramm is a major loss. "We're trying to sort of invade their territory and battle them on message and organization," says Warren Tompkins, the senior Southern consultant for the Dole campaign. But Gramm campaign spokesman Gary Koops offers a pointed rejoinder. "Don't forget it was Dole who said Florida would be the big political event of the year. The fact that he is backing away from it fits in with the whole desperation scenario...
...David Madsen are copycats too, primarily of Thomas Harris' terrific novels Red Dragon and The Silence of the Lambs. Copycat is also faithful to other melodramatic conventions. The sympathetic gay friend will be killed. The brilliant schemer will go implausibly stupid at the climax. And the filmmakers will forget what Harris knows: that there is great horror and pathos inside these creatures. A sick mind is a terrible thing to waste...
...beautiful home in Brentwood, but that doesn't make him a hero to millions of abused women who live in greater fear because of his not-guilty verdict [PRESS, Oct. 23]. Rather than talk about knocking that chip off Marcia Clark's shoulder, Simpson should just keep quiet and forget about big advertising contracts. GEORGE A. DEAN, Southport, California...