Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been promoted fairly rapidly until he hit a position he couldn't handle, and there he sat. An introverted man who had once apparently been a fair researcher and writer, he simply could not manage an office. He would grunt hello in the morning and then disappear into his office, where he spent his days rearranging the commas in our reports...
Indeed, Armageddon is something of a growth industry. In an avalanche of recent books, polar caps melt, a new ice age begins, the oceans disappear, the ozone level is destroyed, terrorists touch off a nuclear war, astronauts bring back a deadly Andromeda Strain. Destruction may also come from a maddened god (Gore Vidal's Kalki). Or in an unending snowstorm (George Stone's Blizzard). Or from the scorching "greenhouse effect" of too much CO2 in the atmosphere (Arthur Herzog's Heat). Or through global political disintegration (The Third World War: August 1985 by a group of English...
...hard-packed, snow-covered road, Yates expected to hear a snowmobile before he saw one. That would give him time to duck into the brush and escape notice. The ranger who spotted him, though, was riding on a snowmobile with a muffler. The ranger caught Yates trying to disappear into the woods. Although Yates offered the alibi that he was heading for the nearby Appalachian Trail and not Katahdin, and though he was not yet within the park bounds and there was little the ranger could do, the ranger's suspicions were aroused. Likewise, Yates now knew that park authorities...
Ostensibly, Agatha is a fiction that attempts to fill in the lacunae in the historical record of one of this century's least pressing but most fascinating enigmas: that ten-day period in 1926 when Agatha Christie, that shy and eminently respectable mystery writer, seemed to disappear off the face of the earth, becoming the object of a very noisy hue and cry in England before she was found, volunteering (as she never did) no explanation for the only untoward incident in her otherwise gray tweed life. Actually, the true subjects of this movie, based on a story...
...blast of electronic music. Teddy (Gortner) and girlfriend Cheryl (Candy Clark) are waiting for a cocaine connection. Teddy makes Cheryl hide behind a rock. Two Mexicans appear and Teddy successfully robs them of both the cocaine and their guns by being quicker on the draw. As soon as they disappear, Cheryl jumps out of her hiding place screaming, "Jesus Christ! You scared the shit out of me! You shot at those men! Jesus Christ!" He sits chuckling at her, lets her rave for a while and then makes everything all right with a kiss and a feel...