Word: forgets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Above all we must not forget that Shakespeare might take over, and we must work doubly hard for Chekhov," Oz concluded...
...first time in more than 30 years the nation has elected a President with sex appeal? The last six Presidents -- Bush, Reagan, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon and Lyndon Johnson -- combined do not conjure up enough erotic energy to fill a single room at the No-Tell Motel. Forget Gennifer Flowers -- this is not the moment to descend into the muck of her sleazy allegations. Rather, the swooning and the cooing on the rope lines during the last breathless days of the Clinton campaign were unavoidably reminiscent of Kennedy. In Louisville, Kentucky, the scene seemed out of Beatlemania. Women...
...onward, regularly anathematized a host of Others: the nefarious "cultural elite"; the make-work lawyers in their tasseled loafers; the outlaw poor, who rioted in L.A.; the "nuclear-freeze crowd"; tree-hugging environmentalists; homosexuals and those perpetuating "alternative life- styles" as morally equivalent; the godless who, Bush reminded us, forget to put the three letters G-O-D in their party platform. Most of all, it went after liberals, especially those who pretended to be something else. The Republican campaign had spawned more demons than you could shake a crucifix...
...turns out, on the issues where, rightly or wrongly, he departs from many black advocacy groups -- issues such as capital punishment and welfare reform -- he's actually closer to black public opinion than they are. "Blacks can't forget that like it or not, they are part of this country too," observes Derrick Bell, the black activist and legal scholar. "At some point, we have to hope for the best with regard to racial issues but recognize that we sink or swim with this society...
...hapless performance in the vice-presidential debate, Stockdale was barely heard from again. That was a blessing. A vice-presidential candidate ought to have at least a nodding acquaintance with the issues voters care about. By choosing Stockdale, Perot did what George Bush couldn't do: make voters forget their qualms about Dan Quayle...