Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gerald Ford and the Corporate State. Unless his agents cancel, Jumpin' Gerry plans to spend part of his time next week waiting for Tricky Dick to disappear by speaking to a respectful audience of Harvard Young Republicans. The concert should include some of his all-time imperialist hits, including "I Am a Simple Man," "I've Got a Name," "The Ballad of the Green Berets," and "I'm Sitting On Top of the World." You can be part of the demonstration that shows Ford that the people have a better idea, such as ending racism at home and cutting...
There are good reasons why successful stage-plays are filmed--at the very least, they provide a record of a performance that would otherwise disappear. And cinematic techniques can be used to strengthen the impact of the play and increase its accessibility. But reversing the process is more difficult, because some means must be found to compensate for the forfeit of all the film techniques. The Loeb Persona doesn't try to make up for these lost ingredients, and is content to deal only with those bare bones of Bergman's film which did not depend on his camera...
...smock covered with pictures of Snoopy and other characters from the Peanuts comic strip. Using the time-honored gestures of the magician to assure her that his hands were empty, Brodeur reached down and pulled a cotton ball from the child's ear, then made it disappear up his sleeve. Brenda relaxed...
...their parents too-respond quickly to the lively decor of the radiology department. But it is Brodeur's magic that enables him to distract even the most fearful child. He pulls a string of brightly colored handkerchiefs out of an apparently empty fist, or makes his thumb disappear. Then, having coaxed a child into smiling, Brodeur rewards him; he whips red and black felt-tipped marking pens out of a pocket and draws a tiny ladybug on the patient's forearm...
...purposes, changed hands every 12 hours? By day Americans could, for the most part, go where they wished; by night we huddled inside thousands of perimeters all over the country, straining to see the enemy out there who could suddenly do us great damage and, just as suddenly, disappear...