Word: oblivion
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...avoid the pit of oblivion into which many such working groups disappear, the committee should have a prominent leader capable of capturing national attention. There are many candidates, with Margaret Thatcher and former Secretary of State George Schultz being the most obvious possibilities...
...lives fashionably fraying around them like jeans torn out at the knees. "Step out the front door like a ghost," he murmurs on Round Here, "Into the fog where no one notices/ The contrast of white on white." On Perfect Blue Buildings, he sighs, "Gonna get me a little oblivion...
...course, such a young person (Duritz is 29) blathering on about oblivion can be annoying. At times his wordy compositions come off sounding like secondhand Springsteen. And it doesn't help when Duritz compares himself to other performers. On Mr. Jones, an ironic examination of the lure of fame, he declares, "I want to be Bob Dylan." Duritz is no Dylan (neither, for that matter, is Dylan these days). Still, much of this album is a pleasure to hear. If Dylan, Morrison or some other rock-'n'-roll hero ever calls in sick for a Hall of Fame gig, Counting...
...inverse-survival law of political totems: the more images of a leader there were, the fewer there will be. Since 1989, cities from the Danube to the Urals have heard the liberating thud of bronze Lenins being pulled from their pedestals. But the biggest migration of images into oblivion began in 1956, three years after the Maximum Leader's death, when Nikita Khrushchev made a speech denouncing Joseph Stalin...
Chastened reformers have been swift to heed the electoral message that when Yeltsin does not offer his coattails, they risk a ride into oblivion. While Yeltsin remained silent after the electoral returns, his confidant Mikhail Poltoranin warned, "Fascism is creeping in the door opened by our divisions and our ambitions." Yegor Gaidar, who heads Russia's Choice, the largest reformist party, and is architect of Yeltsin's economic reforms, was more blunt, calling upon the three reformist parties to "lay aside all ambitions and disagreements" to forge a "united front...