Word: fading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there are some lesser talents who have not been mentioned in this piece who might take a cue and find a new way of working for a living. As the indefatigable Neil Young once suggested, "It's better to burn out than to fade away...
...Conal Murray (Sandy) and Beth Norman (Jackie), these special moments never come. Both actors display little or no genuine emotion, use English accents which frequently fade and have difficulties speaking clearly...
...fade in to Sunday, Feb. 11, 1979, the evening of the most widely publicized programming matchup in TV history. On CBS: a rare telecast of Gone With the Wind. On NBC: the TV debut of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. On ABC: a much hyped TV movie, Elvis! Some network programmers grumble that this costly confrontation amounts to a three-way kamikaze mission. But it draws the crowds. Elvis! wins a 40% share of the viewing audience, Gone With the Wind gets 36%, and Cuckoo's Nest pulls in 32%. Does that add up to more than...
Both sides, however, relished their chants and most shouts were accompanied with smiling faces. Then both demonstrations began to fade: the Democrats marched off, and the Republicans gathered to recite the Pledge of Allegiance...
...That fascination began to turn a corner in 1977," Kalb said. "What sympathy there was for Israel began to fade...when Menachem Begin became the prime minister of Israel...