Word: disappeared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...science and cybernetics have now provided the means to release them both. The answer is a society in which marriage and the family will be abolished, along with all involuntary education. Children, if conceived at all, will be incubated outside the body of the mother. Polarized sex roles will disappear in favor of polymorphous perversity practiced in new social units called "households," loosely linked, nonauthoritarian collections of people, including small children, who contract to live together for periods of seven to ten years, but are free to do exactly what they want. Perhaps the author should visit the United Nations...
Starr is planning on moving to 190 next year, replacing senior Dave Scanlon, and Bob Kristoff, who missed the first half of the season, should get a full year of competition at heavyweight. Harvard lost several close Ivy matches in the closing bouts, and that disadvantage should disappear next December with these two starters...
...takes form. Cables as thick as your arm snake over the floor and up the walls, black and viny. High up, just below a barely discernible ceiling, banks of unused lights cluster like hard dark fruits. And you are aware that this shadowy jungle is alive; figures appear and disappear, slipping swiftly through the darkness, deftly dodging the coiled cables...
...dance--no small achievement. However, there's a certain needed element of farce that could be more in evidence than it is. On the male side of things, Peter Kellogg plays Johnny with appropriate ingenueity and Michael O'Hare is an authoritative enough Rhett (although he rather seems to disappear from the action during the show's second half). As Mayor DeBluesaway, Nick Wyman steals the show with imperious poise and a nimble baritone voice...
Polanski takes occasional excursions into outright fantasy, as when Macbeth has a feverish dream following his second meeting with the witches. But the scene is visually uninspired and mechanically clumsy. Faces and images swirl up out of the hags' cauldron, spin about, dissolve, disappear, as if in some hybrid of hallucinogenic nightmare and the kind of antique special effects that looked awkward over 25 years ago in Hitchcock's Spellbound...