Word: disappearers
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...SCTV mimics -- Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner, Martin Short -- did have a problem. On TV they hid like a subversive subtext inside their brilliant impersonations. But in movies an actor doesn't disappear; he displays himself. So Short has put his mimetic, improvisatory genius on hold and marketed one facet of his personality: the winsome whiner...
...billion loan guarantee to the socialist system in place in Israel," says a senior official. Bush is considering a plan that would channel any new U.S. housing aid through private lenders, so that the money would be more likely to build shelter for Soviet immigrants and less likely to disappear in the sprawling Israeli bureaucracy...
While the U.S. may gain in some ways as its big carriers expand their international market share, travelers will see fewer of the rock-bottom prices they enjoyed during the past decade of desperate competition. As smaller regional airlines continue to disappear, the huge carriers may also be tempted to drop service to some of their less profitable destinations...
...habit of looking at geography from a European point of view would cease. "The Far East" and "the Middle East" would disappear, replaced by "East Asia" and "Southwest Asia and North Africa...
...since the Renaissance has considered that the course of mankind was ascendant, up out of the shadow of evil and superstition and unreason. Thomas Jefferson, a brilliant creature of the Enlightenment, once wrote, "Barbarism has . . . been receding before the steady step of amelioration; and will in time, I trust, disappear from the earth...