Word: fading
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...rain pours white against the Hiroshima evening. Colors fade on petals just past full bloom, Spring is passing. But we stand firm, our dreams of prosperity unfading...
...years after Doom, the original first-person shooter, was released, there is very little left of its allure. This unmasks the fact that there was very little to its allure in the first place. Today Doom 3 is on the cutting edge of technical achievement, but it too will fade from our memories and leave nothing behind. If the value of video games continues to reside solely in their increasing graphical realism and not in their increasing conceptual sophistication, then we all may be wandering around in binary dungeons for the rest of our lives...
...fiance learns about her outside partners, he insists she have a simultaneous assignation with all four of them, and her every orifice is plundered. Returning home, Mona tearfully says, "Mother, I have something to tell you." Mom replies, "I have something to tell you too, dear." They hug. Fade out on this sadder-but-wiser mother-daughter sisterhood...
...turn corporate before you know it. As long as companies are trying to figure out what works by flying the next big idea past a bunch of teenagers, they may take chances on some zany concepts. But once the commercial winners are clear, more outlandish forms of content may fade away. Spam and advertising will creep in too. That makes now an ideal time for all of us to enjoy the wacky creation of a new industry. Your teenager's cell-phone habit might be driving you crazy, but it's jolting the tech world with a hit of much...
With just over one minute left in overtime and his Vermont team leading heavily-favored Syracuse by one point in the first round of the NCAA tournament, Sorrentine’s coach called in a play from the sideline. A screen-and-fade by a post...