Word: vanished
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many other software experts believe, millions of computer systems could go haywire, shutting down life as we know it and turning our information age into a digitally dysfunctional society. Electric and phone service could be lost. Banks and supermarkets shuttered. Life savings could vanish and lives be imperiled...
...talking so volubly to your invisible friend that the overhearer begins thinking he may be the one who is nuts; this works only if you and your nonexistent friend vanish quickly around a corner...
...tough but effective trick: make yourself dematerialize, or make the talking-to-yourself moment vanish, in the way that Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis used to disappear psychically, even when people were looking directly at her. The overhearer should think that somehow he hallucinated the moment. Remember that in the age of television, reality dissolves, moment to moment, into thin...
...Harvard pressure-cooker gets pretty hot mid-semester and by mid-May classes have reechoed boiling point. Your friends vanish, the humming of the Cabot Library fans becomes the soundtrack to your life and you start to hear The Crimson hit your door before you've hit the covers...
Soon Ho was roaming the earth as a covert agent for Moscow. Disguised as a Chinese journalist or a Buddhist monk, he would surface in Canton, Rangoon or Calcutta--then vanish to nurse his tuberculosis and other chronic diseases. As befit a professional conspirator, he employed a baffling assortment of aliases. Again and again, he was reported dead, only to pop up in a new place. In 1929 he assembled a few militants in Hong Kong and formed the Indochinese Communist Party. He portrayed himself as a celibate, a pose calculated to epitomize his moral fiber...