Word: forgottenness
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...good movies need to stop for breath occasionally - so we can catch ours and, if we?re lucky, make some sort of emotional connection with their characters. That doesn?t have to be anything fancy. It just has to be something a little more profound than one jolting, quickly forgotten thrill after another - you know, something you can?t just phone...
...remoteness, or because they lie in a culture of secrecy. Distance can be overcome by modern-day communications and transport. Firing up the imagination is a harder task. So much remains hidden because we don't know where to look or because our curiosity has been dulled: we've forgotten how to see, or we limit our journeys to well-worn paths. Still, in a land as vast as Australia, there's more reason for joy than despair. Its myth-rich Aboriginal culture offers enlightenment if we care to engage with it; the seemingly barren interior can inspire awe when...
...raising money also continues to be a struggle. Marie-France Blanco, a former teacher and social worker, has battled since the mid-1980s to find funding for a program for children of prison inmates. Blanco, who was appalled to discover that the children of French prison inmates are often forgotten by the authorities who lock up their parents, could get the help of only her husband, an executive at the French subsidiary of farm-equipment manufacturer Massey-Ferguson, before she decided to create an association. "When I said prison, everyone turned their head," she recalls...
...would anybody believe him?” Porter told The Crimson early this morning. “He is absolutely correct that I would not have forgotten a conversation like that, and that just buttresses my claim that such a conversation never took place...
...local orphanage. One week I protested when my mother wanted to give away my favorite cap. She reminded me that I would get a new one the very next day but that orphans had no parents to buy them caps. Then she added something I have never forgotten: "There's nothing that can warm your heart more than making someone else feel better...