Word: fading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...MOST UNUSUAL cut on Parallel Lines is Blondie's experimental fling into the progressive electronic music of Brian Eno and Robert Fripp, an expansive song called "Fade Away and Radiate." After an eerie flourish on the synthesizer, Harry coos some surrealistic lyrics; with no instruments backing her--only the thud of a bass drum--she toys with the tune, which seems to be in no key at all. Within a minute, though, the band is behind her; and Fripp (formerly of King Crimson) nearly steals the song with a wild, electronically treated guest guitar solo...
Many speakers thought some of the tension in international trade might fade in the future as the widely varying growth rates among the major countries begin to converge. There was not even much regret that the general direction of the convergence will probably be down, as U.S. growth slips, rather than up, as was once expected. The new managing director of the IMF, former French Treasury Chief Jacques de Larosiere, proclaimed that the world's major international economic ailments "are on the way to being cured." U.S. Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal was nearly as cheery. Despite a lingering public...
...there is Larry Gura; the southpaw whom Manager Billy Martin dismissed from the Yankees in 1976 as a "loser." Joining the Royals, Gura ate a lot, took up weight training and boosted his heft from 170 to 188 Ibs. Nowadays, with a record of 16-4, he does not fade in the late innings. "I'll be ready," he promises...
...Vance had finally helped score an important foreign policy achievement for the U.S., and he was justifiably proud. Wearing a sweater and slacks, he sat in the aisle talking to reporters for more than an hour. But as the plane flew eastward into the night the mood began to fade. And by the time the Vance mission ended some six days, three countries and 14,000 miles later, it was obvious that despite Camp David's great accomplishments, some major questions remained unanswered. What kind of peace was possible? Would the moderate Arabs eventually accept the summit proposals? How much...
...newspapers themselves may face a similar problem because of the strike. Without a product for customers to review daily, the struck papers may fade from their readers' memories, and subsequently their advertisers'. After a 114-day newspaper strike in 1962-63, the city's six surviving dailies lost a total of 400,000 readers. No one knows what the 1978 losses will be. Or indeed when the strike will end; both sides have been summoned to Washington by federal mediators, but the publishers last week refused to attend...