Daphne du Maurier hated his 1939 film of her 1936 novel and she may have had a point: Hitchcock erased much of what made the spirited Mary Yellan so adorable and instead unaccountably boosted the story of the comeuppance of Charles Laughton's evil Sir Humphrey Pengallan.
It may well bring them silverware for a third successive season - riches indeed given the barren 35 years that preceded their 2011 FA Cup Final success against Stoke City - but will not erase a feeling of what might have been.
Less than ten years later, I faced a decision that threatened to erase most of what I had accomplished, and I hesitated as I weighed the consequences.
"Fuel prices erased all of what we have accomplished," Mr. Arpey said.
Thanks to strenuous efforts by the Communist Party to erase memories of what happened (see article), many in China now have only a dim understanding of the history of the protests in Tiananmen Square and the nationwide unrest they triggered.
Behind a thin sheet of glass, this silent, airless relic has an effect that not even ground zero, vast and empty, has now, the clean-up project having erased much of what happened there.
One debate will not erase all of what many voters see as Clinton's complications: the lingering perception of her sense of moneyed entitlement, her lawyerly slipperiness under questioning, the walled garden of her political circle, her interventionist reflexes, her belatedness on gay marriage, comprehensive immigration, and Wall Street reforms.
If inflation or the Big Bang erases information of what (if anything) came before, are we stuck debating over the number of angels dancing Gangnam Style on the head of a pin?
I wish I could go in time and erase lots of what I did, but I can't.
"Under the name of reconstruction, there is a temptation to allow investors to build mega-projects and buildings that could erase much of what is important for people here," she says.
