Word: amnesiaize
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...nearly two hours helping James Garner to identify himself. His name isn't really Buddwing. But soon after he wakes up in Central Park with a blank past, he shoots significant glances at a Budweiser truck (Budd) and a jet plane (wing). Easy. Thus begins, again, the old amnesia plot. Remember? This time around, forget...
...hating himself for goofing a touchdown pass. Anyway, music distracts him from the dialogue, which runs to such sturdy old chestnuts as: "There are names for women like you," and raises the suspicion that the real escaped mental case has holed up somewhere and begun churning out scenarios about amnesia...
...tells the story of a likable young New Orleans stockbroker who escapes the meaninglessness of modern life by going to the movies. The Last Gentleman, his second novel, tells the story of a likable young Mississippian who escapes the meaninglessness of modern life by falling into fits of amnesia and daydreams. Like the earlier book, Gentleman recounts an anti-hero's battle against involvement. But it is sturdier in substance, more supple in style than The Moviegoer, and it shimmers even more brightly with the chaste and civilized ornaments of irony, understatement and compassion...
...Games. For variety, the housewife can tune in on As the World Turns, the doyenne of daily dramas, where the actors still say "You mean . . ." and "It can't be true!" and regularly face death, disease, violence, alcoholism, attempted suicide, amnesia, rape, malpractice and child-custody suits. The viewer can be forgiven if she becomes a victim of another deadly sin-pride-at having a family who, no matter what their vagaries, must seem to be the epitome of middle-class morality compared to the atrocity-ridden citizens of World, Search for Tomorrow, Love of Life, and Guiding Light...
...shot adulteress makes her next big mistake by trying to dispose of a body that may or may not be dead. Sean eventually reappears, recovered from his wound but suffering from amnesia, and the cuckolded psychiatrist has to help him relive everything that's happened. In every crisis, Jean turns to Neighbor Honor Blackman, a swinging divorcee. The seductive Honor gives Moment to Moment the only moments worth remembering...