Word: forgotten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...agents scrutinized the facts, the fingerprints and the getaway-car license plates, however, something larger, more complex, yet weirdly familiar stared back at them. The suspects were specters from a radical past: members of the Weather Underground, soldiers of the Black Liberation Army, onetime Black Panthers. They included half-forgotten radicals, fugitives who had been running so long that no one bothered to chase them any more. More than a week after the $1.6 million armored-car holdup near Nyack, N.Y., in which two policemen and a Brink's guard were killed, investigators were still rounding up ghosts...
...King George III, who had complained that he would go mad if his American colonies were lost, regained his spirits and proved a forgiving monarch. No more than a third of the colonists had supported the insurrection, in any event, and six years of bloodshed and privation were quickly forgotten in the era of good feeling that followed the war. The colonies were placed under a unified government for the first time, and a new capital was established across the East River from Manhattan, in the fertile fields of Brooklyn. Some had wanted to put the new city farther south...
...stay on their side of the water. After that, Paris seemed to lose interest in its third of the North American continent, and with French blessing, the newly independent nation of Louisiana unfurled its flag on July 14, Bastille Day, 1870. Now those unhappy days of strife are long forgotten, and America and Louisiana are friendly neighbors. Our own population is 75 million, according to the 1980 census, just 7 million less than that of Louisiana and its Indian protectorate, Amerinda. Our gross national product, however, is considerably larger: ?439 billion, compared with their combined total of ?369 billion...
UNFORTUNATELY, the Jewish runner and the university don are merely two examples of the unconvincing stereotyping that pervades the film. Intent on criticizing the stuffiness and conservatism of the British aristocracy, director Hudson seemingly has forgotten that any portrayal--particularly a negative one--requires detail to convince. But detail does not appear. Instead, scenes flash by disjointedly: Gielgud and his colleague sip port and discuss school spirit; the Prince of Wales languorously puffs a cigarette and tries to convince Liddell to run the preliminary heat on Sunday "for the love of country...
...team's victory party in Oakland. Angry that several guests of Jackson's had been rude to his family, Nettles confronted his teammate, and the two got into a spirited shoving match. "It's nothing new for this team," Nettles said. "I hope it's forgotten...