We actually had a color TV down in the family room -- it was where I saw the Mets win the '69 World Series and hippies get beat up by cops in '68 (I still root for the hippies, even as I abandoned the Mets years ago) -- but it hadn't worked for a couple of years, as my parents were either too stretched for cash or too preoccupied with the Updikian suburban angst of the early 1970s to fix it.
Though I pride myself on a certain skepticism about marketing hype -- I mean, I drive a Volvo, you know -- I abandon it as soon as a guy in a blazer comes up and shakes my hand.
Instead of working to exercise my self-control, as I used to do, I abandon my self-control and try to find ingenious ways to make a resolution easier to keep.
It's almost as if I abandoned a family of music when I went to jazz and then came back to revisit what I loved".
As I said, I abandoned my Flip Ultra soon after buying it.
To people who grew up, as I did, in a tennis-mad family during the tennis boom of the nineteen-seventies, it's unlikely to be much of a mystery why I abandoned tennis, as both player and fan, between 1981 and this year's Wimbledon final.
I abandoned YouTube as well and moved to Vimeo, which doesn't seem to censor queer and feminist art quite as aggressively.
41.Bxd5 Rc5 42.Rg8+ Kh7 43.Be6 wins as I calculated, abandoning the idea.
When did we go from 'I love you', to 'I just want you to hurt as much as I do'?" Abandoned by a belief set that failed me, a crushing depression set in.
The internal feedback possibilities have been my friend recently, as I had abandoned live-video feedback for years because of the difficulty in controlling it within a dynamic live-environment.
