"She was angelic enough not to mind," recalls Rhodes.
I said to him, 'Are you out of your mind?' " recalled Felix Atlasman, the store's owner.
"I had people say, 'Have you lost your mind?' " recalled Mr. Petro, who likens his gamble to the cornfield baseball diamond of the film "Field of Dreams".
"I said, 'Are you out of your mind?' " recalled his wife, who is now 50 and sells bonds to institutional investors.
Every day he managed to stay near the court was a triumph; at any moment the king might change his mind, recall him.
As director of the museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, Ms. Steele has access to a library of taffeta, wool, satin and PVC, which her fingers can riffle as her mind recalls a trove of iconic looks.
In an interview in Washington, where he attended the opening of the Viking exhibition, the 100-year-old Mr. Ingstad of Oslo, still keen of mind, recalled the moment.
The song "Eye to Eye" is an instant classic, a smooth soul ballad with a fluttering keyboard line; "If You Can't Get Me Off Your Mind" recalls vintage Stevie Wonder; and "You Play Me" references Sly Stone's "You Caught Me Smilin'".
The show begins with the Theatre's director, the actor Simon McBurney, as Virgil, in manic cogitation on the subject of the brain and how we remember — what he calls the "sprouting" of synapses and "high-speed orienteering," by which the mind recalls and, in fact, invents the past.
