Word: forgets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...CAFE (NBC, Fridays, 10 p.m. EST). At a supernatural all-night diner, passersby relive key events from their past. TV could certainly use a Twilight Zone for the '90s, but this tacky, poorly acted horror-fantasy series from Wes Craven (A Nightmare on Elm Street) will make no one forget Rod Serling...
...hammering so fast/ Through Gothic helm and brain it passed." Or the Chinese, whose national ditty is a paean to the prospect of "using our flesh and blood to build a new Great Wall." Guatemalans are admonished never to permit "tyrants to spit in thy face." And who could forget the immortal words in the second verse of the Bulgarian national song: "Countless warriors bravely die/ For the people's sacred cause." Such a roster would be incomplete without the heady draught of carnage served up by Maryland's state hymn, dating from the Civil War, which entreats the locals...
...happening to black youngsters when you've got a 90% African-American staff teaching a 95% black student body," says Franklin Smith, who is superintendent of schools in Washington and black himself. "If you can't prove what you believe here in Washington, then you might as well forget it anywhere in this country...
...prime suspects, but they are not Quarryville's only guilty citizens. We also encounter the pastors of the town's three churches, who combat for the soul of Quarryville and of Ziza Todd. Don't forget Bob Bramer, the perpetual loser in the mayoral elections and Professor van Runk, the broke Washington Irving scholar who owns a key piece of real estate. Quarryville is too small and too incestuous for everyone not to get involved...
Last week's show was the usual blend of acerbic wit and creatively outrageous expropriations of popular songs. Songs like "Stand By Your Klan" and "If I Weren't a Rich Man" (with George Bush singing) are merely the beginning. Strauss and Newport steal songs from the thirties--"Forget Your Rubles, Come On Get Preppy," disco--"Keep Him Alive" (a prayer for the President), and even summer camp as a Palestinian delegate to the peace process sings "Hello, Mullah, hello Fatah, here I am at intifada...