Word: oblivion
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They used to call the road trip to Penn and Princeton the Lost Weekend. Visiting coaches would lose both games and then drink themselves to oblivion...
...referee made him stay. The final punch Holmes threw at 38, 28 months since he lost the title he had held for seven years, was a roundhouse right that got caught in the ring ropes, straightening him up perfectly for the right fist from Tyson that knocked him into oblivion...
...reveal. As directed by Hector Babenco (Pixote, Kiss of the Spider Woman), Ironweed lurks outside Francis' soul, like a tramp at a suburban window, permitting only dumb speculation on his fertile inner life. His ghosts are white-faced extras; his trek up Calvary becomes one long trudge toward oblivion. The movie provides a mug shot instead...
RICHARD NIXON returned from political oblivion in 1968 largely on the strength of a slogan. After losing the presidency to John Kennedy in 1960 and the governorship of California two years later, Nixon was written off even by himself. "You won't have Richard Nixon to kick around anymore," he told reporters the morning after his California loss. Yet in 1968 Nixon bounced all the way back after an image makeover by Madison Avenue hucksters. The still strident Nixon successfully was presented to the voters as "The New Dick...
...feel better. Alcohol numbed my self-awareness, the same trick that it performs for nonalcoholic drinkers at cocktail parties. The difference is that normal drinkers dull their self-consciousness only slightly, the better to socialize. I very quickly tried to send all my thoughts and feelings about myself to oblivion. Psychologically, I was undoubtedly depressed when I began to overcome my well-founded but ill-understood fears about alcohol: my father died when I was a sophomore. For whatever reason, I spent the better part of two decades trying to stay emotionally and physically numb...