Word: disappeared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...efforts are so uphill that it is more than a challenge. The public attitude must change about drugs so the profitability for traffickers will decrease." On this point, Colombian President Turbay agrees: "Colombians are not corrupting Americans. You are corrupting us. If you abandon illegal drugs, the traffic will disappear...
...read the entire libretto--and to study the leitmotif structure Wagner used to organize his music--the most you'll get out of the operas is a few gasps at the brilliance of the musical climaxes in between a lot of boredom. The subtleties Wagner took pride in disappear...
...Four freshmen disappear in a snowdrift outside Weld Hall, prompting Gov. Edward J. King to send in 1200 storm-troopers to close the University. "The people have spoken," King mumbles. "It's a difficult problem" President Bok admits...
...quite a different plane is Last Wave Director Peter Weir's earlier Picnic at Hanging Rock. Though not scheduled for the New York festival, it is a haunting re-creation of a true incident in 19th century Australian history, in which some schoolgirls disappear from an outback outing, never to be seen again, and with no satisfactory explanation for their disappearance ever discovered. Weir creates an oppressive atmosphere, a compound of heat, isolation and sexual innuendo that is quite singular. His skill at wringing terror out of emptiness and silence, his sense of the fragility and smallness of Europeans cast...
...waiters work inside Pretoria until just before the last buses go out to the black townships. But, for the most part, nighttime Pretoria seems to have accomplished the basic aim of apartheid: complete separation of the races. At night, when workers are no longer needed, the blacks disappear, leaving the wealth of the city proper to their white employers...