In Assyria, a truly memorable banquet required 14,000 sheep, 10,000 eggs and 10,000 desert rats.
KAY Zurich, Feb. 22, 2011, 10 28 a.m., nytimes.com To make things memorable requires imagination.... How about days of the year?
Unfortunately, neither biographer achieves the one thing that unauthorized accounts require to become memorable.
On the whole, you and your bride/groom walk out of the same front door on the way to the wedding as you do on your return, so it's understandable that a memorable celebration is required to mark the "transition".
On the Ailsa course at Turnberry, where Tom Watson defeated Jack Nicklaus 32 years ago in the most memorable of his five Open victories, Cink did what was required to send Watson to his most memorable defeat, with an assist from Watson himself.
Required Reading POCKET WATER: Favorite Streams, Memorable Fish, by William G. Tapply; Lyons Press; $24.95.
My most memorable experience with this ideal arrangement (which still required paying attention to where the ball landed) involved Tommy Armour, a Winged Foot member known as "the Silver Scot".
It's hard to fault McCann's fine sentiments, but really memorable fiction requires a little more ambiguity – some more grit in the oyster.
Takeaway No. 2: Memorable seasons require career years.
A mammogram is a more memorable event requiring an appointment at a special clinic.
