Others are about hard times — Biggie Smalls's recollection that in childhood, "birthdays was the worst days," or Outkast's Big Boi on not being invited to the birthdays of his own child.
Still, what I admire most in his work is the way small acts of recollection are embedded in the big style, as when he ransacks his memory for the "apparitions" of hitchhikers "summoned from the nude buckwheat / with blatant inaccuracy".
Howard Nass, a principal at Nass-Hitzig media, a media services and consulting company, found fault with Arbitron's methods, saying the company depends on consumers' recollections, uses small samples and has low cooperation rates.
Even small details of their recollections are massively dissimilar.
Though he's clearly close with his nephew, a series of flashbacks that shatter the formal calm of the small-town afternoon with the recollection of utter devastation, irreparable loss, and a cosmic burden of self-loathing shows why Lee resists the responsibility.
It's not an unreasonable request, and Colette would be more than willing to oblige, except for one small problem -- she has no recollection of ever meeting an Englishman named Patrick Mercer.
The thought of accosting the man and demanding his purpose crossed Mr. Beresford's mind fleetingly, and was succeeded, as always in an equivocal situation, by Mr. Beresford's vivid recollection of his own small size and innate cautiousness.
Perhaps the most obsessive is Jenny Feder, whose small house-shaped sculptural constructions recall Joseph Cornell's boxes in their introspective union of experience, recollection and imagination.
Bess's recollection of Burke as a small-time burglar and drug dealer was corroborated by an anonymous source that claims Burke mostly trafficked in small stuff, like marijuana and hallucinogens.
Amid the pomp the student's thoughts have been on smaller and more private recollections of the man most South Africans know by his Xhosa clan name, Madiba.
As a small child, Washington said that he had no recollections of ever being hugged, and only felt close to his older brother, Chris.
