Word: forgotten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...late Hubert Humphrey used to love to tell the story of the men from the Department of Agriculture in Washington who came to rescue his baked, broke and forgotten prairie town of Doland, S. Dak., in the midst of drought and Depression. Those fellows were white knights to Humphrey, they were missionaries, they were the reason Humphrey put so much faith in Big Government. Yet even H.H.H. before his death sometimes despaired at the way insensitive bureaucrats had forgotten that they existed to serve, not to threaten...
...golden days when tourists came from all over the world for a night at the Cotton Club or the Apollo Theater. This four-part series is both a history and a celebration of those storied blocks of uptown Manhattan, a fascinating scrapbook of a lost and almost forgotten time...
...back or brake: "I feel I have more freedom than most of my friends, forever hopping into the car with a fabric swatch in their hands, driving the kids to the dentist when they could just as well have walked, driving back to the market to buy some forgotten item, picking up the kids from the dentist, back downtown again-this goes on all day long." Fortunately, says Flint, her children "don't have arcane tastes-I don't have to take them clear across town for bagpipe lessons...
Another obstacle to non-driving, totally unrelated to automotive proficiency, is check cashing. How can someone prove he is a person if he does not have a driver's license? Columnist Art Buchwald, who at one time gave up driving, has not forgotten his tribulations at supermarkets in Washington: "They first stamp the back of the check with a little line for your height, weight, color of eyes, everything, walk across the store to okay it-and then refuse to accept it unless you produce a driver's license...
...both performers may be duly anointed as perfect in their parts. Ronstadt, 34, looks as innocent as a fawn and is able to hit high notes that her rock fans probably never knew existed. Even she was surprised. "I discovered I had this other voice that I'd forgotten about," she says. "I hadn't used my upper range since I was a child...