Word: forgotten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...point leaned toward her and said, "Maggie, I love you." When French President François Mitterrand greeted him with a cheery "Hello," the President answered: "Thanks for saying hello in my language. Let me say 'Bonjour.' " He then went on to apologize for his largely forgotten high school French...
...hospital was a dump," he says. "That was when I cried. I had to beg for a wheelchair. The physical therapy program was a joke." The wound he suffered at the forgotten hill in the Central Highlands left him paralyzed, but the wounds he incurred at home galvanized him into action. Says he: "I had always been respectful to authority. Now I knew that I either had to fight these guys or let them control...
...every ex-schoolboy has probably forgotten, Thorstein Veblen coined the phrase "conspicuous consumption" after examining the untaxed sachems of the Gilded Age, their mansions, yachts, gargantuan dinner parties and cyclopean stickpins. In The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) Veblen did not hide his disdain for such display. He belonged to an era of sociology before it married computer science, bred statistics and headed for the neutral horizons of market research...
...UNLIKE most other recent war comedies, a la M*A*S*H*. Stripes makes little attempt to raise questions about the ethics of war and military service. Racial problems are hinted at but then ignored and quickly forgotten. The question of women in the military is dealt with in similar manner. The writers limply play with that one by making Murray's and Ramis's girlfriends military policewomen, but they might as well be Playboy bunnies in khaki. Hollywood sensibilities prevail...
...ofon paid the ex-serviceman-whose name he says he has long since forgotten-$450 for two 11 -in. by 9½-in oil-on-wood portraits, one of a man, the other of a woman. He had no idea who painted them but thought "they were very beautiful." For 20 years they nestled in his jumbled collection of pictures, books, antiques and objets d'art. Then in 1966 an art historian friend recognized the paintings in a book on artwork that had been lost or destroyed in Germany during World War II. Soon the finding was authenticated...