Word: forget
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...difficult to accept a plot device as blatant as that of the hidden letter in the chiffonier's secret compartment. But Strindberg doesn't care that his plot device was awkwardly introduced. Once he has introduced it, it becomes the quickest means to a desired end, and he can forget about it, concentrating on its dramatic effects on the characters. It is to Mr. Babe's credit that he realizes this and dispenses with the plot devices quickly and efficiently, underplaying the melodrama in the script...
...Forget Nothing. At 62, she made her third marriage-to Maurice Goudeket, a man 16 years younger than she. "Ah, la la!" she wrote to a friend. "A nice kettle of fish your girlfriend's in, and loving it, up to the eyes, up to the lips, and up to even further than that...
...going? "My gambler's spirit, my instinct for the game of life." Night after night, often all night, the aging lioness with the mad grey mane and a brow like Beethoven's sat writing under the strong blue light she loved. "Go away slowly, slowly, without tears; forget nothing! Go away adorned, and do not stop on the irresistible way, do not stop for rest except to die. And if you have, to the very end, kept in your hand the friendly hand that guides you, then lie down smiling, sleep as one privileged...
...last chapters of Maugham's own story gave the world a view that it had tended to forget or ignore. His admitted homosexuality got a fresh airing during his celebrated 1963 court fight. He had married Syrie Wellcome and fathered a child, and then was divorced in 1927. Maugham wanted to leave the bulk of his possessions to his secretary and male companion of 36 years. His daughter, Lady Glendevon, took Maugham to court, and after a lot of nasty publicity, he lost the case. Vowing, after The Summing Up, never again to sift through...
...There's no point in talking about these injuries," Lynch said. "The only thing to do is forget about them. I know I'll be starting in the race, and that's about...