Evidence vanished, witnesses evaporated and memories paled.
"It was a big historic event back in 1877," she says, but the details had evaporated from public memory.
A recent viewing of the movie reminded me why virtually all of its details, save that catchy tune, have evaporated from the memory bank.
But its memory evaporated when I moved on to the specialty of the house: paper-thin sea bass carpaccio topped with a fresh mango sauce speckled with chopped cilantro, tomato, dill and corn.
Before long, high school evaporated from my memory and with it went a few choice stories that I wish I remembered better.
Illusions of no consequence at first, you'd be by my side for some adventure and then I'd wake and the memory evaporated like the smoke of one of those horrible Capri cigarettes you smoke.
By "it" he means beat him as he dangled from the ceiling in handcuffs, poured boiling water over him while he squatted in a small metal cage, and hit him over the head with high-heeled boots until his short-term memory evaporated. .
By "it" he means beat him as he dangled from the ceiling in handcuffs, poured boiling water over him while he squatted in a small metal cage, and hit him over the head with high-heeled boots until his short-term memory evaporated.
But those harsh memories evaporated Thursday when Bird, who served on the court from 1977 to 1987, came to the downtown Westin Bonaventure to receive the American Civil Liberties Union's Conscience Award.
It became the rage in Paris in the early 19th century, wended its way to America, where it found a ravenous following, and then evaporated from our culinary memory.
