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...have had no fewer than three movies that revolve around people misplacing their memories. In Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet pay to have the memory of their lousy relationship erased. Paycheck was a sci-fi thriller about a man (Ben Affleck) whose employers wipe his memory for security purposes. (As an extra precaution, they then erased Paycheck from the memory of the entire moviegoing public.) And in 50 First Dates, Drew Barrymore plays a woman with amnesia who is endlessly wooed and rewooed by Adam Sandler. Apparently she forgot they had hooked up before...
...mere 200 years and change ago by a bunch of people who figured they'd start afresh on a brand-new, spotless continent. Maybe that's why we think we can go overseas and build brand-new nations from scratch--hey, that's how we did it, right? Wipe the slate clean and reprogram the patient? But as Joel discovers in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, it's not quite that simple: however much you wipe and wipe that slate--out, damned spot!--something, some mysterious, unerasable palimpsest, remains behind...
...head of the snake has multiplied, and will continue to multiply,” he said, referring to the growth of autonomous terrorist cells throughout the world. Spain had been almost able to wipe out ETA, the Basque terrorist group which operates with the “hierarchal, pyramidal structure” of conventional terrorist organizations, Garzon said...
...okay to negotiate with the devil to save people, or do I wipe them out right there?” he continued...
...tidy cook? Yes. Once you let untidiness creep in, things get beyond you. I've seen Chinese chefs in busy restaurants who work in a very small area, but they never get in a mess. Every time they use a knife they wipe it and put it back in the same position...