Word: forget
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard fans, the 20-15 Bruin triumph left an empty feeling aftertaste similar to the one you get after spending the night at the Hong Kong drinking Rangoon Rubies. All you want to do the next day is lie in bed and forget...
...pretty awful things. I really can't talk about it. They come home to find that they aren't heroes at all--that America has already pushed them into the back corner of a drawer of the nation's history that people now just want to lock up and forget...
...Sayles' achievement--he has written with simple grace and sympathy a moving story of a working-class family split by social forces it cannot begin to understand. We are left with words of Darwin, Hobie's older brother, when his father contacts him about his runaway brother: "Go back. Forget about Hobie, he doesn't belong to you any more. Go back." Darwin is right: Hobie and his father are as estranged from each other as Darwin is from them both. But he is wrong about one thing. They all belong to the land. The America of interstates and McDonald...
...score as the 16 cannon blasts in Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. Yet hard-core pinballers find the game exquisitely relaxing. West Virginia's Secretary of State James Manchin, 49, plays early in the morning to sharpen his mind, at lunchtime to unwind and in the evening to forget his problems. "At the machine," he says, "all the cares and woes of the world are remote...
...arch. "This game rewards concentration, mastery of the technique of hand-eye coordination, a positive attitude," he observes. "You have got to lose yourself in it. That is the therapy of it. When I was trying to give up cigarettes, I'd come in here and play and forget all about them...