Word: forgotten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...During the Iowa caucuses, Dukakis aired commercials criticizing the Reagan adminstration for failing to address the problem of homelessness. In the commercial, Dukakis uses an exploitative picture of a homeless person outside the White House. Perhaps Dukakis had been in Iowa so long he had forgotten that his campaign could just have easily used a similar picture outside the State House in Boston...
...national press has all but forgotten that the three-term governor once faced tougher times. In 1978 he failed in his re-election bid against conservative Edward J. King. Seen as arrogant and too friendly to powerful business interests, Dukakis lost support to King on the right and to former Cambridge Mayor Barbara Ackerman on the left...
...campaign's expectations from Massachusetts voters are low, at least officially. "We're saying 5 percent, but we think we can do better," Jones says of the voter totals. "Anything over that is a victory." But don't think the Jackson campaign has forgotten about the 15 percent threshold...
...theater queues have resembled waiting lines at a sock hop. Teenagers stormed the box office, and Hollywood cloned films in their image. Their favorite genres -- sci-fi fantasies, peekaboo sex farces, gross-out horror movies -- multiplied on the screen, and sequel followed sequel followed sequel. Who needed adults? Those forgotten creatures stayed home with their TV movies and VCRs. For them the local multiplex was a teenagers' tree house bearing the sign GROWNUPS STAY...
President Reagan's empathy with Meese could be based on a shared affliction: both have difficulty recalling embarrassing details of their own conduct. Among the many things Meese claims to have forgotten...