Word: forgottenness
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...Just before Cathy's 400-m race, I was getting a bite and I bumped into Rob de Castella, the great Aussie marathoner from a few years back. I reminded him that we ran the Boston Marathon together once. He said he'd forgotten that, and I said this was understandable since he'd beaten me by an hour and 46 minutes...
...There's a paradox there. His movies are no more stimulating visually than the cable docs they ape. Their sophistication comes from somewhere else. But they get under your skin - OK, we'll skip the dog-with-fleas joke - and make you think about something most movies have forgotten: the ineluctability of American innocence. Odd that it takes a sardonic nobleman to remind us of that. Odd but exhilarating...
Although the game will be remembered for the offensive numbers Harvard put up in the second half, it can't be forgotten that the defense kept Brown from running away with the game in the first half when the offense was relatively nonexistent...
...Forgotten Workers Older than the Lunch-Pail Dads - over-50, white workingmen without a college degree. They feel left out of the economic boom and threatened by GOP plans to privatize Social Security. They started out in Bush's camp, but many are tilting to Gore, drawn by his people-vs.-the-powerful pitch and worried that Bush's tax cut could put the economy off kilter just as they have begun to dream of retirement. Bush could win them back if he convinces them he is an equally responsible caretaker of the economy...
...writing in London today is probably Passion Play by Peter Nichols. Nichols' new work has been unofficially banned from the West End because of a nasty dispute with the National Theater some years ago, but this new revival of one of his early works proves (for those who've forgotten) that he's one of England's most skilled dramatists. In a season with such little English skill in evidence, it seems about time to let bygones be bygones...