Word: fades
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...Cross-Fade,, one of Nikolais's genuinely mixed-media works, touches on man's egoism, and the individualist's haughtiness and vanity. The work begins as one dancer poses with pelvis thrust forward, one dancer poses with pelvis thrust forward, one hand positioned smugly behind his head. His photograph and then a larger-than-life silhouettte is thrown on the scrim. More and bigger photographs follow as other dancers join in, all lit by a bronze glow, enshrining them as perfect Renaissance nudes...
...Hampshire is any sample, the press and television will be very conspicuous and unusually self-conscious this election year. Not only were too many candidates chasing too few votes, but too many reporters and camera crews were chasing too little news. Candidates knew they had to score early or fade, but for the press New Hampshire was a kind of out-of-town tryout for their season's coverage, and with their cameras, sound stages and numbers, they saturated the small arena. To add to the sense of journalistic overkill, the press itself was often dogged by three sets...
...practitioners (at least, the female ones) from the rest of society, and preserves its morally controversial status. When prostitution becomes an accepted occupation, when hookers are no longer regarded as pariahs but can run their own lives without fear of arrest or exploitation, then the need for COYOTE may fade. But the group has plenty of work ahead; Margo St. James will not need to go job- or john-hunting again for a long, long time...
...particular society and others are "out." What's accepted at one point may be unaccepted at another, but always the romance, the lowest form on the totem pole of stories, took over during phases between one set of accepted stories and the next. Even then romance will eventually fade from the scene...
...Christian who rejected the main dogmas of religion, a generous miser, a snob 'who championed the underdog. If contrast described his psyche, irony defined his life. Like Conan Doyle, whose Sherlock Holmes entertainments outlasted his "serious" work, Andersen was to see his poetry, novels and travel books fade and his trivia be come immortal...