Word: fades
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...President Benjamin Mkapa of Tanzania, who proclaimed that his country can do nothing about poverty so long as it is burdened with heavy debt payments. Sharon Stone leaped to her feet and called for the stunned audience to help--and promptly raised some $100,000. But after the stars fade from the headlines, it's easy to forget such worthy causes...
...Boston drivers are a different breed. Their driving wavers somewhere between oblivious and schizophrenic. They stop dutifully in the left lane at a stoplight because that’s the lane they were driving in—even though there’s nobody in the other lane. They fade between lanes with no semblance of purpose—or sometimes even intention. I’ve driven in front of buses at night that had no lights on. More than once, someone has tried to merge in from the right—right into my passenger door...
Each of these caused minor eruptions in the press, receiving varying degrees of national attention, but taken together and slotted as supporting acts for the Cornel West dispute, they formed a familiar image of Summers—one he had hoped would fade in light of his efforts at self-improvement at the Treasury...
...show really going down the tubes? How could something so glorious fade so fast...
...insertion of these famous faces does little to aid this faltering family film. Their roles are defined by sickly-sweet feel-good phrases that fade into forgettable nausea. The film is as fabricated and superficial as the miracle candies that save the town—but not the audience—from emotional apathy. Eclectic without being endearing, unrealistic without being fantastic, and strange for no other reason than to be strange, the movie is a helpless collection of disparate elements unable to come across as a cohesive entity...