Word: oblivion
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...this is what John A. Volpe, Edward J. McCormack, Elliot L. Richardson '41, and Francis J. Bellotti have been thinking about for months. For anyone of them a loss tomorrow could well mean political oblivion...
...intensity of the campaign between Bellotti and Richardson reflects their knowledge that defeat would be tantamount to oblivion. For weeks they have engaged in charges and countercharges in daily newspaper advertisements. Last week in a furor over a supposed conflict of interest dating back to Bellotti's days as lieutenant governor, Richardson charged that Bellotti was "morally insensitive" while Bellotti claimed that Richardson was an "immoral candidate." It is virtually the only contest in which the candidates have recognized each other's existence...
...right answer, and he is as good as sold. What he buys is oblivion. Soon he is propped up in bed reading his own obituary. Having purchased a $30,000 first-class death (hotel fire) with a stand-in corpse from the organization's Cadaver Procurement Section, he has undergone plastic surgery and a light brainwash. When the medics start pulling the bandages off, the former middle-aged banker stares into a mirror. Who can it be, under those stitches and scar tissue? Would you believe Rock Hudson...
...case-history plot has been dead for some time, but it was not formally buried until Murray Schisgal's Broadway comedy Luv kidded it into oblivion. And the protagonist of Saul Bellow's play, The Last Analysis, complains bitterly: "Doctor, I'm fed up with these boring figures in my unconscious. It's always Father, Mother. Or again, breast, castration, anxiety, fixation to the past. I am desperately bored with these things...
...commissions by the pair, along with a large exhibition currently traveling throughout West Germany, reveal a technical facility in touch with the times. Most of the acclaim goes to Brigitte Meier-Denninghoff, 43, today ranked as Germany's leading sculptress. Her collaborator husband does not mind his relative oblivion. A former actor, he figures that she was already well on her way before they became a team in 1955. "We'd like to change the use of my maiden name," Brigitte confesses, "but it's probably too late for that...