Word: forget
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...country, Angolan President Agostinho Neto's Cuban-backed government has finally prevailed over two rival revolutionary groups: Hoiden Roberto's National Front for the Liberation of Angola (F.N.L.A.) and Jonas Savimbi's National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA). Apparently willing to forgive and forget, Neto's government hopes that the returnees, many of whom are technicians, professionals and skilled workers, can help rebuild the devastated country. Says Luanda's ambassador to Lisbon, Adriano Sebastiao: "All skilled Angolan workers who want to return will have a job waiting for them. What we need...
Even the lightest children's tales display Singer's sources: the Bible, mystic writings of Jewish cabala, Tolstoy and Chekhov. "I never forget," he maintains, "that I am only a storyteller." This insistence on the unities of plot and form has made Singer the greatest living 19th century writer and perhaps the only Nobel prizewinner with no pretensions whatever. The lively old figure, with eyes the color of the Israeli flag, dressed as for a formal walk on Warsaw's main street in 1928, has become a familiar one to shopkeepers of Manhattan's scruffy West...
...Forget about your troubles and your cares. Go watch a ball game. And somehow, baseball is the easiest sport--excuse me, pastime--in which to lose yourself. It is not the national sport, as any good baseball man will tell you, it's the national pastime...
...Baseball's more grass, passivity...time," number 37 of the Boston Red Sox says. It can go on forever. No clocks. Forget about the time, and watch a ball game...
Days of Heaven. A stupendously beautiful film, as visually and aurally rich as any ever made. And forget the other critics--the elemental storyline and characterizations are perfect. No one has ever used a moving camera more effectively than director Terence Malick (Badlands), and the compositions recall the early Russian classics. Magnificent music and performances. This film will be discussed in far greater detail at a later date, but see it now, fast--it's a Barry Lyndon that breathes...