Word: forgets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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People who see him -- and countless millions have -- do not forget him. His appearances generate an electricity unmatched by anyone else on earth. That explains, for instance, why in rural Kenyan villages thousands of children, plus many cats and roosters and even hotels, are named John Paul. Charisma is the only conceivable reason why a CD featuring him saying the rosary -- in Latin -- against a background of Bach and Handel is currently ascending the charts in Europe. It also accounts for the dazed reaction of a young woman who found herself, along with the thousands around her in a sports...
Fluent in eight languages, the Pope chooses his idiom to suit his dinner companions. Says a Vatican aide: "He listens, talks directly, asks questions, puts you at ease. After five minutes you forget you are talking to the Pope." For visiting bishops with problems to share, he can turn on the charm, singing and joking -- although his humor runs more to irony and good-natured kidding. After the dissident Swiss theologian Hans Kung was censured for a book questioning papal infallibility, John Paul commented, without malice, "And I'm sure Kung wrote that infallibly...
...mind-boggling hoopla last week, it was easy to forget that much of the system being demonstrated was still under construction, including the all- important network operating system that is supposed to field, smoothly and transparently, simultaneous requests from the remote controls of thousands -- and eventually millions -- of customers, even when large numbers of them are trying to watch the same hit movie at slightly different times...
...great power it historically has been. Instead, they think, it is being brushed aside. Russian fears of an expanded NATO may be exaggerated but are not totally paranoid. Fear of Russia is indeed a factor driving Moscow's former satellites to seek full NATO membership. Russians tend to forget their country's long history of aggressive expansion under czars as well as commissars. Worse, Russians think the U.S. and other Western powers are reneging on an implied deal. Moscow has done much of what they wanted -- pulled its troops back from Central Europe and the Baltic states, for instance -- only...
...great talent is the ability to meld melody and power: the music is sweet and dangerous. On Corduroy, the album's best song, lead singer Eddie Vedder delivers an impassioned antimedia rant backed up by scathing guitars -- but the melody is pretty and whistleable, and you can't forget...