Word: forgotten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...offered a comprehensive view of the effects of Alzheimer's disease [July 11]. But the sickness has two victims: the patient and the supporting spouse. Over a devastating ten years, I watched my wife go from having minor memory problems to that never-to-be-forgotten day when I had to institutionalize her. Now I know why Alzheimer's is referred to as "the worst of all diseases," "a funeral that never ends," or "a person I used to know...
...Ugly American image is largely forgotten. For one thing, though they spend more money and time in Europe than any other non-Continental nationality, Americans today are only a part of the tourist mass. As Atlanta Travel Agent Phil Osborne puts it, "The whole planet earth is traveling." Ten times as many Germans as Americans visit Italy each year; as many vacationers on the Continent come from tight little Britain as from the entire U.S. By contrast with the early days of jet travel, when tourists from the heartland came dressed in Hawaiian shirts and Bermuda shorts or polyester pants...
Imagine that, buried in a forgotten carrel at the back of the British Museum, a hitherto unknown comedy by the 17th century playwright William Congreve had been discovered. Fancy further that his comedy was put not on the stage but on film, with every world-weary epigram and convoluted conceit intact. Such a notion must have occurred to the English experimental film maker Peter Greenaway. With The Draughtsman's Contract, which he wrote and directed two years ago, he has restored the Restoration sensibility. Here is a comedy-mystery laced with Triple Sec humor and stately, raunchy characters...
...Aspen conference would seem to be an ideal place to focus this notion into a vision. It was started by Walter Paepcke, chairman of the Container Corp. of America, as part of an effort to turn the half-forgotten Rocky Mountain mining town into a chic culture and vacation resort. Paepcke was one of the few U.S. industrialists who believed in design excellence in architecture, industrial products and graphics. With Herbert Bayer, the Bauhaus designer, he created the corporate image of his company and set the tone for the Aspen conference. Imperceptibly, the conference, in turn, set the tone...
...place where worlds come and go, sometimes sinking out of sight. In the 16th century, Cortés obliterated the Aztec culture in one of history's more thorough conquests. But 200 years before that, the Aztecs had built their own civilization near the ruins of an earlier, forgotten people. To this day, Mexicans are haunted by the ever present fear of still another apocalypse, and there is enough bad news in their economy at present to keep the specter alive...