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- <text id=91TT2362>
- <title>
- Oct. 21, 1991: If You Don't Get It, Just Forget It
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Oct. 21, 1991 Sex, Lies & Politics
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 30
- If You Don't Get It, Just Forget It
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- <p>By JANICE CASTRO/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
- </p>
- <p> You know what they do: the politician who spews
- platitudes at ethnic voters. The guy who patronizes women on the
- issue of sexual harassment. The big-city police chief who
- downplays his department's gang beating of an errant motorist.
- What don't these folks do? They don't "get it." Suddenly the
- phrase is everywhere, a shorthand K.O. punch that vaporizes
- opponents by skewering their lack of social intelligence. And
- for public figures it can be fatal. If you just don't get it,
- you're hopelessly out of touch.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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