Word: forgets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...politics of memory is complicated. Never remember? Or never forget? Or simply, Never again? Now the parents' generation, the survivors of the Hitler years, are in their 70s and 80s and are dying off. The generation's memory -- along with whatever objects and images and cautionary knowledge may be salvaged -- needs to find permanent residence. Or else it will be lost. This week, a powerful -- and controversial -- fortress against forgetting is being dedicated in Washington...
...also urged his followers to "forget the past" and reaffirmed his willingness to work with De Klerk "to build a new South Africa." But on Saturday, two blacks were killed by a white gunman during a march in Vanderbijlpark, near Johannesburg. The tragic past threatened to overwhelm a peaceful future...
...spring time, people want to cut their hair off and forget the winter," she says...
...Forget the word circus; it conjures up nothing more magical than slapstick and animal odors. The grand, ethereal Cirque du Soleil is really primal theater -- an age-old blend of music and motion. The weirdly soothing, polylingual background score, which could be elevator music at a harmonious U.N., rolls out a verdant carpet of sound for all the pretty beasts to strut on. At every moment, in every corner of the Cirque world, stagecraft approaches genial witchcraft. It's an out-of-Broadway experience...
...basketball hoop and, of course, an electric train set. The visiting Princess of France and her ladies in waiting find the men's actions, particularly their vow not to see women, highly amusing. Needless to say, the men immediately fall in love with the women and decide to forget their vows and begin wooing. Accompanied by every classic "oldies" love song imaginable, the story proceeds in a light-hearted fashion until disrupted by more serious events...