Giovanni Ribisi, for example, has, as far as I can recall, never given a bad performance; here, playing a head-scratching garage mechanic, he girds himself to deliver an absolute stinker a symphony of mannerism in a one-note role, guaranteed to have viewers giggling in all the wrong places.
Nixon, you will recall, never did much that his predecessors had not done.
And indeed, so far as I recall, there never was any.
Mr. Jackson, he recalled, never appeared for a fitting.
The "highly artistic production," a Tiffany manager later recalled, "never received much attention".
Barret recalls never seeing his grandfather in anything other than a strictly tailored suit.
Another former commissioner recalled never having talked to anyone on Capitol Hill before being nominated.
But countless other records suggest that the outrages Sybil recalled never happened.
Dr. Hedin, she recalls "never once asserted that there IS a god," although the students did.
I was once lucky enough to play in a Sunday-afternoon run-through of the Mendelssohn Octet with Irvine Arditti leading; as I recall, he had never played it before.
I recall that I never succeeded in changing the director's opinion of me; nor did I change my own opinion.
