He reflects, in a fine phrase, that with the fall of the Soviet Union, "capitalism had lost its memento mori".
In our daughter's bedroom, last permanently occupied two years ago, the posters have come down but the corkboard is still there, with its mementoes: theatre tickets, an Abercrombie & Fitch label, a photo of the cast of Spooks.
It has many mementos of its role as a meeting place for San Antonio's power brokers.
During the holiday season it sells Elvis mementos in its shops in Tennessee and Our Lady of Guadalupe ornaments in cities with big Hispanic populations.Retailers with lavishly furnished stores and helpful assistants will increasingly have to put up with free-riders who come into the shop to check out the products and get some advice, before slinking off to buy them for less online.
The Fort Collins Museum (founded as Pioneer Museum in 1941) preserves in its courtyard the first settler's cabin and two other historic structures, and it houses mementos of the fort.
It contained mementos of the period.
Mr. Jackson's film also won awards for its visual effects and production design, while "Moulin Rouge" was honored for its music and editing and "Memento" for its screenplay.
Virtually untouched for 100 years, the Warners' house has much of its original furniture, library, mementos sent back from the Indian Wars by devoted Army officers and a replica of the Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington, the original of which was Anna Warner's final gift to West Point.
The trend continued in the AIDS quilt, with its handmade images and mementos, and reached a peak of public participation with the oceanic expanses of flowers amassed in front of St. James's Palace after the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.
Sean Burns of the Philadelphia Weekly commented that "For all its formal wizardry, Memento is ultimately an ice-cold feat of intellectual gamesmanship.
