Word: disappearers
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...breezes ruffling a pond; rarely have the varieties of anguish and uncertainty been so thoroughly catalogued through look and gesture. Streep's understated suffering rescues the character of Joanna Kramer from a virtually no-win plot: bad enough that a mother should leave her young child and then disappear from the film for nearly an hour; worse still that she come back and try to break up the new life that her husband and son have painfully built. "If Joanna is a villain," Streep recently told TIME'S Elaine Dutka, "if there's a white hat-black...
...slightly less honorable vocation of gossip-monger, is Up and Down with the Rolling Stones, expensive at $17.95 and no bargain at any price. Excerpts have appeared in Playboy and the New York Post, which should tell you something. A good biographer should have the ability to disappear, to close the observer/observed rift; Sanchez's egotism transforms biography into autobiography. This is not "The Inside Story" but "The Sanchez Story." Unfortunately, the life of a drug connection is not much more interesting than the story of a guy getting drinks for the 13-year olds at a bar mitzvah. Whatever...
Harvard fans saw a 43-39 advantage, built primarily on Holpuch's improved play, disappear in the dust of the UMass fastbreak. Peters repeatedly hit Ready and Legare for easy layups and a 60-53 Minuteman lead...
...moderate his image, at heart he is still the romantic conservative he has always been, glorying in the strength and goodness of the American people. Says he: "I used to fantasize what it would be like if everyone in Government would quietly slip away and close the doors and disappear. See how long it would take the people of this country to miss them. I think that life would go on, and the people would keep right on doing the things they are doing, and we would get along a lot better than we think...
...most bizarre episodes in nu clear history was the 1968 disappear ance at sea of a shipment of 200 tons of uranium. The heist was not confirmed until 1977, when it was generally assumed that the Israelis had latched onto the ore, enough to make 30 bombs at their atomic reactor in the Negev. This insubstantial news snippet was seized upon by bestselling English Novelist Ken Follett (Eye of the Needle), who has processed it into one of the liveliest thrillers of the year...