Word: amnesia
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...ambitious Charlotte Swenson, a model who will do almost anything to gain entrance into “the mirrored room,” a magical place whose inhabitants embody success and fame. Her failure to revive her modeling career leads her to alcoholism, a sort of selective amnesia and depression. Desperate to attain her dream, Charlotte signs on to a new commercial venture best described as the Internet version of “The Real World” or The Truman Show. As the project takes on a life of its own, nurtured by the public’s insatiable...
...someone to talk to. And then she came and told me that I had experienced a trauma and that the extra-strength-for-trauma sleeping pills would make it better. I must admit that sleeping for a change was nice. But I couldn’t help thinking that amnesia would be better...
...historical and write about all the missing persons who ever teased the world's imaginations--Judge Crater, Amelia Earhart, Ambrose Bierce, Agatha Christie, Aimee Semple McPherson and her faked kidnapping, Sherwood Anderson and his faked amnesia, Dr. Livingston--I would have presumed...
...would-be-pro baseball player from the University of Miami, he called his listeners "babycakes" and himself "Hyski O'Rooney McVoughtie O'Zoot." (Why oh why is Lit's peripatetic paradiddle patter embedded in my pre-teen muscle memory, especially considering that the rest of my musculature has amnesia?) Hy moved down the dial from WHAT 1340 to WIBG 990, when that station acquired a 50,000-watt transmitter and a new pop-rock sound...
...Grill?) I thought of Janet Jackson’s The Velvet Rope, but that’s kind of kinky. Any thoughts?…So I saw Memento last week and can’t shake it. It’s about a guy with short-term amnesia who’s trying to track down his wife’s killer; in order to keep track of events (since he can’t make new memories), he takes lots and lots of polaroids. One of the most ingenious scripts to ever be filmed. You?...