Word: fading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...remember listening several years back to a recording of Coitrane's great "Love Supreme," and right after the ending of that piece's first movement the disc jockey did a fade-in to Sanders's "Upper Egypt." It was one of the few times when you could not tell the difference between Trane's horn and another's. The highest compliment...
Where does he go from here? King recognizes that once Ali retires or loses, much of the million-dollar glamour of boxing will fade. To avoid fading with it, he is expanding into producing records, representing pro athletes and making movies. With financial backing from Arab contacts, he has even made a bid to buy Madison Square Garden. "One day I will realize I can't make every deal. That day," he intones, "has not come...
Nobody is discounting the ineptitude of the opposition in the Democratic Congress. It is staggering. In such an atmosphere, almost any reasonable overture by a President makes headway. Ford's spring high could fade with bad luck or a firm adversary. But political momentum, whether down or up, tends to reinforce itself, and Ford is climbing...
...orthodoxies fade and die. When they do, it becomes apparent how much space was left between their lines-and, occasionally, what interesting talents were excluded from the canon. At that point, artists who had been around all the time are greeted as if they were new arrivals. One of these, at present, is Beverly Pepper, 51, a sculptor who has lived in Italy for the past 24 years and has two shows of her work running in New York: indoor pieces and projects at the downtown André Emmerich Gallery, and "monumental" steel sculpture on the terrace of Hammarskj...
...geologists can enter only with gas masks. Does this spectacular activity foreshadow the first major eruption in the lower U.S. in a half-century? U.S. Geological Survey scientists refuse to speculate. "Some volcanoes erupt with hardly any warning," explains Geologist Mark F. Meier. "Others puff for a while, then fade back to obscurity...