Word: disappears
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tureen. Yet artists managed to, at first by subterfuge. A sculptor might rent a loft for $100 or less a month, clean it out and install a folding bed that could disappear against the wall if a building inspector called. He had no security of tenure. The typical habit of SoHo slumlords, which persists today, was to offer no lease, wait for the artist to spend a few thousand dollars renovating the loft, and then arbitrarily double the rent. The pattern of exploitation worked because artists had nowhere else to go. There was no space uptown. Greenwich Village was already...
...Gabon's weddings." Highlight No. 1: Frank Sinatra, in excellent voice, making his farewell appearance-singing the songs he made famous and ending quietly with a "saloon song" called Angel Eyes. He barely whispered the last line, " 'Scuse me while I disappear," as the lights faded, and he did. Highlight No. 2: Princess Grace of Monaco, patroness of the evening, introduced by a nervous Gary Grant, her onetime leading man. Highlight No. 3: Pearl Bailey hamming it up in her Hello, Dolly! number with what may have been the highest priced male chorus line of all time: Sammy...
Though most furniture will be for normal-size people, one Brobdingnagian fireside chair will be reserved exclusively for the host. Explains Wilt: "I don't want some friend to come over, sit down in a chair and just disappear...
...rich; policemen could concentrate on traffic and organized crime; entertainers, hippies and adolescents could be given a bigger scapegoat role than they already have. But most solutions-like paying menial workers higher wages -would cause the affluent both fiscal and psychological pain. As a result, Gans concludes, poverty may disappear only "when the powerless can obtain enough power to change society...
...think Jack Scott and others may be saying that the time of participatory sports and lifetime sports is at hand, and that the crowd-pleasing spectator sports can be left to the pros and television, or disappear entirely...