Word: gone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Upstairs, Downstairs, British Actress Jean Marsh was helping the Allies win World War I by serving tea at the Bellamys and moonlighting as a bus conductor. But lately she has been embroiled in World War II, filming The Eagle Has Landed, in which she plays a British WAC gone awry aiding Michael Caine, a German colonel, in a plot to kidnap Winston Churchill. How could the prim Rose of Upstairs switch from kitchenling to quisling? Easy, she says: "I'd do it to anyone for the money...
...billboards picturing grotesque snake-entwined monsters hovering over eviscerated women may cost $40,000 and take 36 artists to paint. These gargantuan murals, which used to be thrown away, are suddenly being bought up by European museums. Som-boonsuk Niyomsiri, one of Bangkok's foremost poster painters, has gone on to become Thailand's biggest film producer−under the name of Piak Poster. His latest movie, American Surplus, deals with the discrimination suffered by the bastard offspring of black American GIs stationed in Thailand during the Viet...
...sale of stock or real estate, as heavily as income from wages and salaries (capital gains now are usually taxed at half the ordinary-income rate). That idea created an uproar when George McGovern voiced it in 1972, but this time around, coming from Carter, it has gone almost unnoticed...
...inns and amusement parks, in the still of the night, 10 million kids are going to upchuck their french fries, 5 million more will smear their cones into Daddy's nose while he is driving, numerous unruly teen-agers will get themselves bitten in the behind by surly bears gone berserk amid the frenzy of Yosemite, dozens of tennis foursomes will never speak to one another again, hundreds of budding romances will expire into a heap, mothers-in-law will weep, the divorce rate will leap, and in the end, home will never look so good...
...White House, this year's innovation is mercifully practical: gone are the weary hours spent waiting in line to enter the Executive Mansion. Now tourists are given time slips, and can then rest tired feet in a red-and-white striped tent on the adjacent Ellipse...