The stately apartment, where Ms. Holm has lived since 1953, reflects a full and fruitful life: mementos from her films "All About Eve" and "Gentleman's Agreement"; sheet music on the grand piano for songs she and her husband still sing together.
For his macabre still-life "Memento Mori" from 1998, he arranged 30 real and synthetic flies in a specimen box and pasted paper cutout heads of the 1997-98 Most Valuable Players from each of the 30 N.B.A. teams on their bodies.
But modern life means that mementos of affairs of the heart reside on computers.
I had already taken a plastic bag -- or 10 -- to throw away all the vestiges of my former life: photos, letters, mementos... even my wedding photo negatives.
A huge subject matter for still lifes was the memento mori so that's where the repeated imagery of fruit, skulls, flowers, etc., comes from in those paintings.
While the head is painted black, Habeck adorned the creature's broad frill with a still-life "vanitas," the memento mori paintings meant to remind people that they, too, must one day die.
The last thing you need when starting a new life is any mementos of the past.
I'm not one to admonish people for wanting to keep a memento of life's sweetest moments (#picsoritdidnthappen), but in the case of fireworks, it's really best to put the camera down and just enjoy the show.
This embryo is a memento of life, not turned into garish chromoplastics, but preserved, like a fossil, in stone.
The woman she cleans for, Pauline (big house, no life, boxful of baby mementoes under the bed) agrees to host Stephanie's first party.
My recollections of my grandparents revolve around the harshness of their early years, their faith that if you had family memories and mementos of life and those of your children and your grandchildren, life was good.
