Word: forgetting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feels that in the U.S. "one wastes too much time being angry. Life here is more natural, more leisurely. In discussions with French people, they never say, 'How do you, a Negro, see this?' They simply ask, 'How do you see it?' In Paris you forget the color of your skin...
...Leading Man Tony Curtis as if enclosed in a cake of ice. It was tough on Curtis, a simpler type who can still exclaim: "Gee, Marilyn Monroe makin' love to me!" Marilyn also huffily rebuffed Producer-Director Billy Wilder's smallest advice ("You'll make me forget how I'm going to do this scene"). A mild man, Wilder survived by treating Monroe like a fine Swiss watch: "Only it doesn't start ticking when you just wind. You have to shake it a little-not just any old way-but just so." ¶ Producer...
...Well, now you're set. Just pick one of 'em, kiddo, take it upstairs and forget the other. I mean it doesn't make that much difference. And it'd just make a mess with the records...
Admirers of Mr. Rodgers will be glad to know that he is writing almost exactly the same sort of music today as he was fifteen years ago. The only difference is that his songs, always easy to remember, are now also easy to forget...
...politicians will shake hands around town and outraged public sentiment will force one or two of these politicians to look into what's going on, I mean really going on, in Springhill. Some will suggest greater safety precautions; some will suggest that the town close up, go away and forget its troubles. But Springhill won't close up, go away and forget because things could scarcely get much worse. Canadians all over are proud of the people of Springhill because the face of the Canadian people is concave, which is good for taking punches...