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But he does an excellent job of squaring the fading man before his eyes—the soppy grandparent and proud father—with the “shadowy, mysterious, sometimes frightening, often absent” stock figure from his youth.

Even Djokovic, who has a sturdy case as the tennis GOAT, acknowledges he’s fading in the rear view.

Then all that remains are the fading memories of golden ages—and the broken shards of discarded amphorae.

With war memories fading eight decades after Japan’s surrender in 1945, Beijing has found ways to update an old formula.

But, his grin fading, going through boot camp in New Orleans in the “dead brutal summer,” he says, was anything but a sitcom.