Word: forget
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...flight. Yell and scream instead. Eye contact, too, establishes a threat to the cougar, or you may wave it away. Raise your arms to make yourself seem bigger than you actually are. If in a group, band together and pick up the children. If you are with pets, forget about them. Defend your children. And if the lion attacks, fight back, brandishing a threatening object--knife, branch, stick...
...films. Instead of ghettoizing the gay experience, it integrates it into familiar Americana--gays and straights laughing, loving, misunderstanding one another. As O'Haver says of Kiss, "The idea was to set up these labels of straight and gay, and then by the end of the film forget that Billy is gay. The labels don't really mean that much." That is an aim of the new Gay Wave: to tear off the labels of stereotype, the better to consider the common fabric of our emotional lives...
...call me Ishmael,[9] but I sympathize with Barnicle; it's doggone hard to write a column without borrowing ideas, and easy to forget to credit them. The way the Globe dealt with him was appropriate. Yet those who see a double standard have a point. The main reason Barnicle was able to hang on to his job is that a powerful network of whites leaped to his defense. Radio talk show host Don Imus, NBC Washington bureau chief Tim Russert, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen and CNN's Larry King minimized the seriousness of Barnicle's transgressions. Staples...
Sometimes you have to forget about the Dow and all the other averages and indexes. You have to forget whether the market is rolling over or about to dive 1,000 points. In fact, you have to forget about "the market" altogether and remember that you're buying stocks of individual companies--or, if you're in mutual funds, that you're paying a manager to know and buy those companies...
Attention Millennium planners: As of tomorrow, there are only 500 days (or 416 shopping days at your local party store) until the year 2000. Forget those fogeys who say that it really doesn't begin until 2001 and celebrate along with New York's Times Square Business Improvement District...