Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Once more B. U. came back to score but by this time the game was out of reach. As B.U.'s Jack Kelly fumed on the bench, B.U. saw its national championship hopes disappear...
...moon made hardly a dent in the American cool. It had the aura of a TV studio fabrication; the excitement lasted about as long as a commercial. This inability to respond to the ever-increasing size of events has become the American narcotic. The highest historical moments fast disappear under the omissions of journalism, the perversions of television, and the sheer acceleration of history, and while our response to these moments is inevitably dulled, the events themselves are taking on a style and structure which laugh at any response we might happen to muster...
...despite inadequacies of Groupies -it is not a good film-it should be seen. If it is no more than a bad artifact of rock culture, it is still important for the material it records. It may be all for the good that rock groupies disappear, but they were an integral part of the music and our time. Groupies gives us one more look...
Cutbacks have already been made in the national HUD Model Cities staff, and the $1.5 million allocated for Cambridge this year may soon disappear. The local staff is trying to improvise ways of keeping current programs alive, forgetting for the moment about trying to create new ones. City Hall is awaiting its chance to take the program and its money away from the local residents. Nixon is effecting his domestic plans. And in the middle of it all, Cambridge Model Cities, as originally conceived, is swept away. A nice idea that perhaps couldn't have worked anyway, but it deserved...
...more than 18 centuries, the world's surgeons have mainly used catgut to stitch up their patients. The chief reason is that the body's enzymes can absorb catgut (actually made from cattle and sheep intestines), and the sutures usually disappear within 90 days. Because the material consists of animal protein, though, it has one flaw: it causes inflammation around the very wound it is supposed to heal...