Word: mementos
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...rhythms. That can be a mistake, even for real captains: one bright afternoon in 1971, the Antilles, a 20,000-ton French cruise liner, rammed a reef between the islands of Mustique and Carriacou at full steam, and its hulk still lies in the sun as a sobering memento mori...
Advertising is a world halfway be tween Disney and Dante. White Knights gallop through suburbia, housewives are absolved for ring around the collar, and stars and cowboys blissfully pull on their weeds, oblivious to the Surgeon Gener al's little memento mori in the corner -"dangerous to your health." The Fed eral Trade Commission, which has long labored to deflate the more extravagant pitches, last week published proposed guidelines to ensure that any celebrity shilling a product actually uses the thing if he or she claims...
...someone as a Magical Mystery Tour Guide throws a box of blurry photos over the balcony. Suddenly, there's a minor re-enactment of mobbing the Beatles; this time it's only pictures. Hands clutch at the paper, as though they were home runs hit into Fenway bleachers. Another memento for the scrapbooks...
...Yugoslavia and a naturalized citizen, Pregelj (pronounced Pray-gull) is an economist for the Library of Congress. When the jury members asked President Nixon to testify before them, Pregelj wrote the request. Nixon refused to appear, and Pregelj planned to keep a photocopy of the reply as a historical memento. Carefully he placed it in a newspaper to take home -only to misplace the newspaper...
Among her most valued treasures, Marlene Dietrich explained to the London Daily Express, is a bit of penicillin culture, the first ever developed by the late Sir Alexander Fleming. How did she win this memento? "When I saw how his discovery saved the lives of soldiers who had lain in the mud for days, I had to see him with my own eyes. A meeting was arranged-a dinner party, I cooked. We became very close friends," she explained. "Men are better than women," Marlene went on. "I fancy myself as probably having more of a male brain...