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...black vinyl stigma of inferiority would, of course, vanish instantly with the purchase of the right upscale desk accessory. These days, given the vast array of choices, selecting a personal diary has become a bold and precarious act of self-definition. It is fine for Gail Sheehy in Passages to decree that "somewhere between 35 and 45 if we let ourselves, most of us will have a full-out authenticity crisis." Sure, I know it is about time for me to decide who I really am and where I fit in the cosmos. But do I really have to grapple...
Strategic advantage can vanish quickly as the Soviets steal or copy military technology and turn it against its inventors. McNamara suggests that "it takes the Soviets on the average only four years to catch up" to U.S. advances -- and then the weapons may pose more of a threat to Americans than to the Soviets...
...disappointment is there. It will be there for awhile. But perhaps it will vanish today. A victory in The Game. It's the only way a losing season can become an instant success...
...reckon with this, and nor did Karl Marx. From its first days, Marxism-Leninism has been peculiarly blind to the potentiality of nationalism to trample like an enraged warthog through the neat corn rows of class theory and inevitable revolution. "National differences and antagonisms between peoples are daily vanishing," wrote Marx and Friedrich Engels in The Communist Manifesto of 1848, "((and)) the supremacy of the proletariat will cause them to vanish still faster." But the same year was the apogee of European nationalist uprisings in the 19th century...
...uses holographic projections in place of sets to alter the show's physical and mental terrain. Nine projectors throw a kaleidoscope of images onto a small raked stage and side panels, creating a cinematic illusion in which the actor can dash up the steps of an apartment building and vanish inside or float high above New York. The shift is instantaneous -- like putting a live actor into a movie. Operatic design may never again be the same...