The word surfaced briefly after the 1987 stock market crash, but quickly disappeared.

But on Monday he surfaced briefly, telling a Jackson television station, WLBT, that he had no intention of backing down and would let the state's Constitution and laws decide the winner.

Myers surfaced in the entertainment world again briefly in 1951, with a short-lived DuMont Television Network show called The Carmel Myers Show, which followed the interview format.

He briefly surfaced in the mid-70s drumming for Paul Butterfield's touring band.

The truth surfaced briefly, was acknowledged, and then vanished beneath the necessity for subterfuge.

Although rumors briefly surfaced that he had joined Soil (the band promptly denied this), he eventually became the guitarist for the rock band Fuel.

Last weekend, though, Mr. Barnes surfaced briefly, and pseudonymously, to promote a new book about his old life in the feral 1970s, "Mr. Untouchable," written with Tom Folsom.

Some of them surfaced briefly, to thrash about screaming until they sank.

A vague line that was what now passed for his smile surfaced briefly, faltered, and died.

How long he remained unconscious he did not know; only that the room in which he briefly surfaced was dim and cool and presided over by several dark-clad women of indeterminate age, with gentle hands and kindly faces.