Word: gone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trial opens the only one missing from the scene is the Jack of Hearts himself. Dylan, it seems, has slipped away by declaring himself an "entertainer" and by developing a style to prove it; he shrugs off criticism as if those who simply view him as a poet-prophet gone bad are holding up a ghost for judgment...
...vague, perhaps unmeasurable feeling that, after all, Watergate was not all that bad, that its catastrophic results were out of all proportion to the wrongs that were done. It is conceivable, goes the reasoning, that he was only defending friends in the White House who had done stupid things, gone too far in their zeal. Or perhaps his only mistake was in getting caught...
...Many Christian families who survived the civil war in West Beirut had gone to the eastern part of the city to try and start a new life. They said it would be safer there. Now black smoke hangs over it like a cloud smelling of death. Shells land every three minutes. In the Phalangist stronghold of Ain Rumanneh, every house has been hit and many leveled. One man who ran upstairs during a lull to salvage an old family heirloom had his legs blown off. The guns keep firing, the Phalange radio says hundreds are homeless...
They dismissed Sadat's proposals as a hardening of the Egyptian position. Said one Israeli official: "Egypt has gone back to square minus-one." Nonetheless, Israeli officials were convinced that they should go to London, if only to help dispel Jerusalem's image as the "bad guy" who was the stumbling block to a peace settlement. But after Premier Begin made another hard-line speech, a Western diplomat in Israel sadly remarked that "the diplomatic Novocain has already worn off"-a reference to the fleeting benefits of Mondale's visit to Jerusalem...
...over a salary dispute, signed on with Los Angeles' KNXT for $150,000, was fired six months later during a ratings slump, and is now looking for work. "They put their guts on the line every day, and they know that if the ratings fall they could be gone just like that," says WBBM Station Manager David Nelson, snapping his fingers. Muses Schoumacher about his career: "It's nice now, but how long will it last? I'm glad I'll always know how to type...