Word: forgetfulness
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...continues to love her. Better still, she reluctantly begins to bond with her uncle. He may have neither the life-skills nor the ambition to lift himself off the road to nowhere, but he is a good-natured man with the ability to make his niece laugh, to forget, for a moment, her hard-luck life. And somehow her spunk emboldens him to free himself from the psychopathic toils of his father, the source of his and Joleen's lifelong misery (as if you hadn't guessed). There is a wonderful range to Robb's work; she's testy...
...just might explode. Her track record consists of working on the task force for health-care reform (abandoned), supporting NAFTA (she's now against it), voting to authorize force against Iraq (which she now regrets) and endorsing No Child Left Behind (she's now against it). Let's not forget that she cast her Iraq-war vote without reading the National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq. It appears that on all the most important issues, she hasn't got one right. The one area of experience she obviously beats Obama in is testifying during investigations into possible wrongdoing. Chris Boone, Maple...
...book-length study of John Updike--contain passages so beautifully observed and perfectly formed that they stick in the mind for years. His lesser works--the sweaty, oversharing sexcursions Vox and The Fermata and his tetchy political rant Checkpoint--contain passages you could spend years trying to forget...
...thetitle, it must have Old Glory on the cover—that’s a given. But why stick with theclichéd image of an actual flag flying inthe wind if one can look at a peeling renditionpainted onto a pile of stacked logs?Forget the fact that it’s technically illegalto put the national symbol on anything;these editors obviously think an image ofthe American flag is only truly Americanif it’s down-home, peeling, and on a pileof logs.—Meredith S. Steuer
...should not forget that the collapse of Prime Minister Romano Prodi's center-left government in January was triggered in the land of the Camorra. Shortly before the fall of his government, the latest in a string of shutdowns of Campania's trash collection - a business in which the Mob has long had its fingers - left tons of rubbish piled up on Naples' streets for weeks on end. Prodi had allowed the governor of Campania to stay afloat despite his failure to manage the trash emergency. The Prime Minister didn't see the situation in Naples for what it really...