Word: fading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...FADE TO BLACK...
BELLS GONG in the dark. Sirens wail. Lights fade in on three corpses on a stage...
...week wore on, however, the reasons for optimism began to fade. At first the election had looked like a stunning personal victory for Jose Napoleon Duarte, President of the civilian-military junta and the man backed by the U.S. because of his moderate reform policies. His centrist Christian Democratic Party led the balloting with a 40% plurality and 24 seats in the 60-member assembly, which will name an interim President, write a new constitution and organize national elections. The Christian Democrats hoped that after their strong showing they would easily be able to control the assembly by forming...
...that little statuette as medicine. "I made it an unrelieved mind trip," she says. "I told him that he was going to win, and wouldn't that be wonderful after so long a time waiting for it. Talking about the Oscar was another way of not letting him fade away. When he won, I flew into his arms. He held me tight and I saw the tears in his eyes, and they told me he was overwhelmed with a sense of profound Writer Thompson happiness. 'Hell, if I hadn't won,' he said, 'I wouldn...
...OBJECTS will deteriorate, the characters will fade from memory, and what will remain, is meaning. "Crime Does Not Pay," the banner on Boston's second largest daily the day Locke went to jail, is the first and simplest that comes to mind. But it does not ring true. If anything, Locke's case should call attention to a disease currently pervading the current administration. Recurrent charges against aides to Gov. Edward J. King, and King's continued insistence on ignoring a major corruption report, suggest that Bery Locke was just an unlucky scapegoat. And von Bulow's trial was sensational...