But, frankly, the same item on someone who remembers, or nearly remembers, that decade, has the potential for shades of Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
(I can nearly remember a time when there was growth, when there were jobs.
Loughner seems to be an uncomfortably familiar figure; one of those juvenile megalomaniacs with guns, who show up in the news at least once a year for having carried out a mass shooting at a US high school or college, nearly always remembered, as Loughner has been, as "quiet" and "shy".
The only good thing about this new outbreak is that nearly everyone remembers 2001 and is prepared to act upon the memory, and the swifter the better.
The narrator, while nearly drowning, remembers a night in high school when he slept with the girlfriend of his friend and football teammate.
Nearly everyone remembers singing: You are my sunshine My only sunshine You make me happy When skies are gray You'll never know, dear, How much I love you Please don't take my sunshine away.
-- Killing becomes mechanical, clean, nearly sterile (remember the war porn images of missiles blasting through windows in Gulf War 1.0?) Our atrocities -- My Lai in Vietnam is the best known, but there were many more -- are the work of a few bad apples ("This is not who we are as Americans").
The results were clear: shoppers in the "low mood" condition remembered nearly four times as many of the trinkets.
Healey's try and Dawson's conversion in Canberra will be remembered nearly as long as their diaries.
I hadn't learned a new song since 1979, but I remembered nearly all the songs I used to play at family gatherings.
