Word: forgets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hill never forget being deeply moved by that European song, he said. "I made up my mind right then and there that it this war would ever end, I would devote my life to magic...
Americans, it seems, have come full circle. It's easy to forget that as recently as 1948, Norman Mailer was still using the word fug in his novels. There may have been a sexual revolution - at least for those college-educated whites who came of age with John Updike's swinging Couples, Philip Roth's priapic Portnoy and Jong's Fear of Flying - but the revolution turned out to have a beginning, a middle and an end. "From the time of the Pill to Rock Hudson's death, people had a sense of freedom," says Judith Krantz, author of Scruples...
...gone to jail for something exactly like this," he said. "I'm the one who is supposed to throw everything behind and forget...
...Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy -- is not going to make us better citizens." And: "The study of literature, however it is conducted, will not save any individual, any more than it will improve any society." While discarding these schoolmarmish fallacies, Bloom's Common Readers are also advised to forget about picking up literature for enjoyment: "The text is there to give not pleasure but the high unpleasure or more difficult pleasure that a lesser text will not provide." (Among many personal asides scattered throughout the book, Bloom notes that teaching the poems of Emily Dickinson left him with "fierce headaches.") What...
...superb cast is led by Mastroianni, whose world-weary charisma so comfortably bears every man's crimes and charms. But finally it is the film's images that seize the memory. You won't soon forget the bleached radiance of a seaside wedding reception, the shadows caressing Dona Leonor on her midnight raid to smash dwarf statues on a nearby lawn, the face of a girl who wonders if she is the pawn of a lady's possessiveness or the beneficiary of a gentleman's genial lust...