Word: forgetable
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...forget that the Games are derived from a Greek religious festival. The ancient Games also featured displays of poetry, music, sculpture. The point was that there was always something for the eyes to feast on. Today's Olympics have the same carnival-like atmosphere. For a TV watcher, this spectacle makes for great viewing. Watch some javelin during the lull between 100-m heats. Cut away to the Aquatic Centre, where Fu Mingxia, triple gold medalist, will dive for China. Flip to a few rounds of the legendary Cuban heavyweight fighter Felix Savon. Here's Marion Jones--she wants...
Some research has shown that intense coaching, like that at Woodrow Wilson, can lead to short-term spikes in test scores but that later on kids tend to forget much of what they've crammed. "Instead of reading novels, kids are skimming three-paragraph passages for key words," says Linda McNeil, an education professor at Rice University, who this year co-authored a report critical of the Texas exam for Harvard University's Civil Rights Project. Texas' lackluster performance on other national exams bolsters her case. Even as TAAS scores have skyrocketed, SAT marks have lagged. According to figures released...
...relationships may improve because you forget the petty kid stuff. For instance, my youngest brother, a 31-year-old anesthesiologist, does not feel the slightest twinge of resentment at being characterized as a little brother in a national newsmagazine. And if he did? That's what he gets for denting my handlebars. He can be grateful that America doesn't know his kindergarten nickname...
...quickly we all forget--even TIME. Admirable as Gore's selection of Lieberman is, the Senator is hardly the first Jew on a national ticket. That would be Barry Goldwater, the G.O.P. presidential candidate in the 1964 election. DON WATERS Ridgefield, Conn...
...promise you a day of reckoning that you will not live long enough to never forget," says the aged tough guy (James Caan) to two punks (Ryan Phillippe and Benicio Del Toro). They've kidnapped a young woman (Juliette Lewis) pregnant with a baby she is carrying for the sleazy rich man who employs Caan as enforcer. Got it? McQuarrie, who managed suspense quite smartly in his script for The Usual Suspects, here devises a two-hour gunfight interrupted by questions of paternity. But he's not so hot as a director, so what aims at being terrifying is just...