Word: forgets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time for such unabashed benevolence to reveal itself, not until the last spoonfuls of cranberry sauce have been scraped from the bottom of the bowl and the last scraps of turkey have been gobbled up. A word to Harvard Square retailers: forget about the red and green lights until Monday, at least. Then we'll be more likely to heed the annual call of greed...
...stage is set and the players are ready. Although the Crimson is optimistic and looking ahead, it definitely has not forgotten its first loss. A tough two-point lesson is easy to forgive, but definitely harder to forget...
Maybe we ought to just forget it--bury romantic comedy in the graveyard of genres dearly departed and move on. It was unquestionably the loveliest invention of the movies' golden age. But ours is not the golden age of anything--certainly not of romance or of high wit, surely not of that tolerant class consciousness that animated so many of those 1930s comedies. You know the old drill: rich boy meets poor girl (or vice versa), the disparities in their backgrounds--the very thing that first attracted them--sunders their romance until, defying convention, they get together at last...
...write smart dialogue for grownups to speak, but that skill only occasionally distracts from the desperation of his basic conceit. Bridges is a terrific actor, but, putting it mildly, he's miscast in the Doris Day role. And Streisand is a terrific presence, but also a performer who never forgets who she really is. Since she directed, co-produced and wrote Mirror's love theme, she is not about to let us forget it, either. "Second Hand Roses" have been part of her act, part of her calculations, for over 30 years, during which time we have learned that sooner...
...good news may be short-lived, however. American teens are taking up tobacco in alarming numbers. Today, 19% of all eighth-graders use tobacco regularly, up from 14% in 1991. By tenth grade, about 28% are smoking. If they keep it up, they can forget about living longer--or healthier--lives...