Word: fades
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...story is legend. But even legends fade with time, and the years have diminished the lustre on the King of Pop’s crown. He burst on the scene in the 1970s and thrilled the world in the 1980s. But increasing reports of his bizarre personal life and scandal doomed his career in the 1990s, and his latest comeback effort carries with it the faint scent of desperation. Now is the final chance to prove that the Gloved One is still the loved one in the hearts of the people...
Gradually, the slight plot resolves with fine acting; the tension between drunken son and remote mother dissipates; feelings of ill will fade between Gabriel and the attractive Molly Ivors (the aforementioned cantankerous youth, played with a surprisingly beautiful conscientiousness by Brandy Zarle); and Bartell D’Arcy, supposedly the best baritone of his time (a role more than sufficiently fulfilled by Gannon McHale), settles his affairs with his almost reluctant hostess, Aunt Julia herself...
...Pierce, who writes in The Turner Diaries about an overthrow of the Federal Government and the institution of a new "Aryan" regime, anticipates a day when Resistance Records' music will fade away. "I don't know who will end up being the Minister of Culture after the revolution," he says. "But I would hope we would salvage the best of our European traditions." In other words, cue up the Beethoven...
...then you discover years later that that's what Africa pays every couple of weeks on old loans. It's kind of a shock. I thought we'd never forget what we'd been through in Ethiopia, but you go back to your life and then those images just fade away...
...paints a picture of a man would do anything to retain his control as a self-made Rock Star—even take his own life. And although it was true that Cobain truly wished to “burn out” rather “than to fade away,” his motivations for doing so were based upon self-retention of permanent superstar status, not upon disillusionment with selling out and abandoning grunge’s ethos of private alienation...