The "only one" syndrome – where a single black writer is allowed into the spotlight at a time – perhaps may have finally faded to memory.
Just when it seemed that lamentations of the dot-com meltdown had finally faded, an assistant business professor and a surviving Internet executive have opened an academic mausoleum for the official blueprints that started 1,000 ill-fated Internet businesses.
Those once bright red stretch marks on my thighs had finally faded into my skin tone, but not obscurity.
When the song was over -- when the strings had finally faded out -- Jonathan turned to me and said, with a smile, "I'm proud of you, Tim.
Now in his 80s, with both physical strength and public influence fading, he has finally become the outsider looking in, only to discover what a painful place that can be.
The news that Kodak's long fade to black has finally ended with the company filing for Chapter 11 protection (a way of protecting it from bankruptcy while it attempts to restructure) has prompted an avalanche of retrospective wisdom about great companies "fumbling the future" (as the title of a book about Xerox once put it).
New conventions spring up across the world almost weekly, notes scene expert Fred Patten, and social stigmas weighing down furries have finally begun to fade a bit.
When the Communist menace finally faded, so did Hoover.
