Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fortunately, the situation is not quite so dire. The vocal quartet Boyz II Men is living, singing proof that the love song -- like love itself -- will never really disappear. Other performers may grab the headlines and spark debates on the op-ed pages, but by going against the critical tide and recording harmonious ballads, Boyz II Men has won an enormous following. Its 1991 debut album, Cooleyhighharmony, sold 7 million copies, and in 1992 its mournful, melodic single End of the Road stayed at No. 1 on Billboard's charts for 13 weeks, breaking a record set by Elvis Presley...
...least some of the refugees. But the sudden change of heart by Panama only deepened the impression that the Administration was practicing a kind of voodoo diplomacy toward Haiti, lurching from headline to headline and hoping that somehow the country's leaders would magically change their ways or disappear...
...guerrilla war. The clandestine campaign, they say, will involve poisoning water supplies, spreading diseases among the invaders and employing voodoo powders to "incinerate the skins" of enemy troops. "We have been told to fire on civilians when the Americans come," says amember of the paramilitary group FRAPH, "and then disappear in the panic...
...addition, the wonderfully stimulating filming techniques which Kieslowski employed in "Blue" disappear here. He is more interested in the story than on overindulging this reviewer's taste for the visual...
Either way, those demands will not disappear. Han claims that there are now secret cells of labor activists in most of China's major cities who give wide circulation to his China Labor Bulletin -- banned on the mainland as "subversive" -- and who are playing a key role in the outbreak of wildcat strikes and protests. "How much pressure can the laborers endure?" asks the dissident. "Things can explode at any time." And the government seems all too aware that the fuse is burning...