Summarizing Tony Kornheiser's article about memory loss and the Rolling Stones
(step 2) After forgetting to use tickets he had for a Rolling Stones concert, Washington Post humor columnist Tony Kornheiser lamented another aspect of getting old--memory loss--and made some tongue-in-cheek suggestions about how to deal with the problem.
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(step 5) After forgetting to use tickets he had for a Rolling Stones concert, Washington Post humor columnist Tony Kornheiser lamented another aspect of getting old--memory loss--and made some tongue-in-cheek suggestions about how to deal with the problem. He cited some suggestions he had read in his paper’s "Health" section. The suggestions were "rehearse-repeat" and "use cues." Rehearse-repeat wouldn’t seem to work because if you have memory loss you might forget why you’re trying to remember whatever it is. And cues wouldn’t work because you can forget what the cues stand for. He joked with a friend about whether she was going to use contraband drugs at the Stones concert for old times sake, but she chose to use ginkoba, a memory improvement drug.
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(step 7) Summary of article
After forgetting to use tickets he had for a Rolling Stones concert,
Washington Post sports and humor columnist Tony Kornheiser lamented
another aspect of getting old--memory loss--and made some tongue-in-cheek
suggestions about how to deal with the problem. He cited some suggestions
he had read in his paper’s "Health" section. The suggestions were "rehearse-repeat"
and "use cues." Rehearse-repeat wouldn’t seem to work because if you have
memory loss you might forget why you’re trying to remember whatever it
is. And cues wouldn’t work because you can forget what the cues stand for.
His examples of how these techniques might fall apart were very funny because
they were gross exaggerations. One example resulted in a fictional person
being committed for continually babbling "I’m out of Feen-a-Mint," while
trying the rehearse-repeat technique. He also pointed out that using cues
such as HOMES to remember the names of the Great Lakes might not work if
you can’t recall that the E stands for Erie and not Evelyn. He joked with
a friend about whether she was going to use contraband drugs at the Stones
concert for old times sake, but she chose to use ginkoba, a memory improvement
drug.
Kornheiser, Tony. "The Stones? Forget About it." Reprinted from The
Washington Post, 26 Oct. 1997: FO1. <http://www.clearlight.com/~jtrosen/tony_stuff/october261997.html>.
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