Word: forgottenness
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...Some people say we don’t need this war; I say there are some things worth fighting for,” sang “patriotic” singer-songwriter Darryl Worley. “Have you forgotten how it felt that day; to see your homeland under fire and your people blown away...
Clearly, Bagnoli hadn’t forgotten a young wide receiver out of Los Gatos, Calif., who, when faced with the choice of two Ivy football programs, went with the one a bit further north...
...denied an interview. Not terribly surprised, I forwarded the message to several friends, joking that my birthday was off to a great start. Sarcasm wasn’t going to get me through the day. By 2 p.m. my silent cell phone had me convinced that my parents had forgotten my birthday. By 3 p.m. I realized that my significant other had too. The evidence was in and the jury reached a disheartening verdict: Twenty-three is the ugliest number...
...these nits, once picked, should be discarded and forgotten. What remains is a rich, wise, absorbing and irresistible novel. Wolfe does things with words--exhilarating, intoxicating, impossible things--that no other writer can do. Take this example, from the second page of the book, in which frat boy Hoyt stares at himself in the mirror, dead drunk: "A gale was blowing in his head. He liked it. He bared his teeth. He had never seen them quite this way before. So even! So white! They vibrated from perfection. And his square jaw ... that chin with the perfect cleft...
...tell complex stories with deeply developed characters: St. Elsewhere, L.A. Law, Wiseguy, thirtysomething, Twin Peaks, Northern Exposure, NYPD Blue, The X-Files, My So-Called Life, Ally McBeal, The West Wing. This is not to say that the '80s and '90s were some kind of Renaissance--we have not forgotten Models Inc. But these shows believed that drama was first about character--fleshing out a set of people, week after week--and that human behavior was ultimately a more engaging mystery than any murder or virus (even if the shows were about murders or viruses...