Word: forgotten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this pen pusher. Such is not the case for most folk, though, and there's just a bit of arrogance, dare I say elitism, in this novelist's attitude. Sitting in the stands on a beautiful Wednesday afternoon in Wrigley, clad in Polo shirt and docksiders, our novelist had forgotten the most important thing about major league baseball...
...Minister, who defeated a challenge by the longtime party boss, Julio Adolfo Rey Prendes. Although Duarte and the candidate are not on the best of terms, Rey Prendes' close ties to corrupt officials led the U.S. embassy to favor Chavez Mena. "It is almost like Duarte is already completely forgotten," says a European diplomat. "It is really quite chilling...
...Sirlin's trompe l'oeil stage, the first three dimensions dissolve, shift and disappear; on the spaceship, the fourth, time, is relative and thus meaningless. By the end, a half-crazed M. (the work's title comes from M.'s description of the pounding sounds in his head) has forgotten most of his ordeal, but is left to fear that the nightmare will begin again...
...World Apart ends tragically. But the ending is not a statement of futility. It is an appeal with bite, pleading that South Africa not be forgotten 25 years later, since conditions have not improved...
When his hopeless and long-forgotten 1976 campaign for the presidency ended -- and even his last-ditch, favorite-hopes were thoroughly dashed in his home state by Jimmy Carter -- Lloyd Bentsen had still not passed the asterisk level in national name recognition. Twelve years later, at 67, the senior Senator from Texas remains largely unknown outside his home state and Washington. His career has played out in the boardrooms of Houston and the hideaway offices of the Capitol. The backslapping style of a Lyndon Johnson or a John Connally, two of his early supporters, is totally foreign to this patrician...