Word: mementos
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...fact, the beef tongue on the menu at Hungry Mother is a family memento, according to Maiden’s cousin, Jill Howard, who added that, when he was young, Maiden was “the pickiest eater...
...Cobbe portrait is one of the paintings that came to the family via the earl, though Wells believes the evidence is strong that it is. But if so, that inevitably invites speculation that the earl might have commissioned it. Could it even have been a keepsake for himself, a memento of his loving - maybe very loving - admirer...
...stage the songs and dances that the children have so assiduously rehearsed. When Li and Versace tour a classroom, they do so while amazed farmers press faces at every window. Those who can't get close shove mobile phones through the bars in the hope of capturing a grainy memento. As the stars emerge, they find themselves in a perilously crowded courtyard of people and paparazzi. There are three film crews jostling for sight lines. Tempers fray, pushing starts and a local policeman begins to yell at the top of his voice at a knot of uncomprehending Italian journalists...
...watches that movie, they're watching me being raped." (These claims were widely disputed.) But Damiano did his best to make his leading lady look good. He gave her an alliterative, movie-star name and devised costumes, lighting tricks and cagey camera angles to hide her abdominal scar, a memento from an earlier car wreck. Linda was no goddess, but neither was she your standard porno skank; she was slim and freckled, and her inexperience on screen played like freshness, innocence. Moreover, the movie itself had such an easygoing good nature that audiences could enjoy it without feeling dirty - more...
Point: Tempus fugit, memento mori...