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Right after that classic nightmare of having forgotten to study for the exam comes the horrific vision of taking the test only to have the answer sheet lost. Last week in New York City the vision became reality. Portions of 542 New York bar examinations, which for the would-be lawyers who had just taken them were the culmination of years of graduate study, disappeared from the state board of law examiners' offices. The deeply abashed three-member board alerted police and quickly notified the unlucky 542 out of the 6,562 tested. "There is no way to express...
...subtly written on the lovely face of Aleandro as she descends from serenity and self-possession to a final, harrowing acknowledgment that her privileged life was based on willed blindness, that her future is as an emotional desaparecido. Hers is a performance that one knows will not be forgotten, much as one would like to try to erase it, and all that it stands for, from memory. --By Richard Schickel
...check, or on the driver's license, ready to be shown to the highway patrolman who has just seen the Target run a stop sign. The computers apparently can't deal with a complicated concept like the name Otto, but they will know almost instantaneously whether F18332, etc., has forgotten any parking tickets or whether the 22-digit bank account includes any checks that bounced...
...going to bother too much with terpsichorean authenticity. Did you know that Three Times a Lady was a waltz? That Britney Spears' Toxic was a tango? That the jive was, per the narration, "a fast-paced rock-'n'-roll extravaganza born in the 1920s"? Or had you forgotten there was rock 'n' roll in the 1920s...
RICHARD CURTIS I've already forgotten the name of my fourth child. [Laughter...