Word: mementoed
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...Then, according to Erika, someone approached, ignored her cries for help but ripped a gold necklace from her neck and ran away. Witnesses say scavengers also looted the bodies of other passengers. Erika has issued a plea for the return of the necklace, which she says is the only memento of her father. Said one resident, Georgina Santamaria: ``God saved the girl, and he will punish the people who robbed her and the rest of the victims...
...appeared on David Letterman's show three times: "We're getting better known because we're just so interesting." The museum's photo calendar, she adds, sells briskly. The first ones, issued in 1993, are now collector's items, at $40 apiece. Each picture, like each exhibit, is a memento mori, a ghoulish reminder of our own mortality, malevolently fascinating, weirdly beautiful...
...however, younger legs prevailed 6-3. But the warmest cheers after the match belonged to the runner-up, who magnanimously allowed Martinez a solo turn around her court with the trophy. Pausing as she left the stadium, Navratilova stooped and picked a tuft of turf as a last memento. "I wasn't so splendorful today," she said. And was this really the end? "Definitely. Enough...
...MEMENTO WE'D LEAST LIKE TO SEE. "If I had known how famous he was going to be, I'd have had my uterus bronzed." -- Leah Adler, on her famous son Steven Spielberg...
...protagonist as a young boy in the early 1940s spending long hours alone in a basement apartment near Manhattan's Third Avenue El while his mother, the rawboned, boilermaker-swigging Emma, drives a cab. Fortunately for Claude, the cramped living quarters contains an old 66- key nightclub piano, a memento from Emma's past life on the vaudeville circuit. The boy begins plinking away and eventually seeks advice from Aaron Weisfeld, the owner of a nearby music-supply store...