"I had gone to Ingolstadt and found the factory and I saw a very old faded poster on the wall that someone had left up there," Hegarty says.
As the draw unfolded, there were cheers and sharp inhales of breath in the room as Mexico drew Brazil, though any schadenfreude swiftly turned to groans as Honduras landed in the softer group of Switzerland, Ecuador and France, and the USA's last hopes of a softer landing faded.
The Tory clamour has rather faded since it's emerged that voters favour Labour's idea (the Tories themselves don't even mention private renters in their manifesto).
Her career faded as she hit her teens and she made her final film in 1949.
Most crucially of all, the Sarkozy era in France looked to be over, having dazzled briefly and faded fast.
The once semi-rural idyll of suburbia might have faded under the weight of hollowed-out high streets and the urban ethnic mix but suburbia is a resilient place and all the better for its modern diversity.
"We've had to make some difficult decisions … " An aide mimed a throat slit manoeuvre and the bit about working-class criminals not being great vote-winners got faded out.
The smaller campus in Scarborough is close to the faded seaside glamour of the resort.
This has faded since the 1980s when Israel sent arms during the war with Iraq, although Alpher detects an "equivalent" today within the Obama administration.
The rational, autonomous, self-aware agent acting in his own self-interest according to static preferences has faded as we realise that behaviour is largely irrational, unconscious and driven by external contexts.
"#whoputstrufflesontheirnipplesDearGod," she wrote on Instagram, which rather invited the answer: I dunno, someone who spends $150 on a Preserve Exclusive Pixie Rag Doll, designed to look "faded and threadbare"?
