Word: blinking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recipes range widely in subject matter. "Lay the Ghost" prescribes various diversionary tactics to erase that haunting memory. "Blink your eyelids twelve times; yawn enormously-like a hippopotamus; notice four objects in the room; count ten hairs on your head-pull out three." "Attend Your Funeral" is designed for pure fantasy-indulgence, requires two solitary hours during which the reader is told to dream himself a guest at his own wake, checking to see who sent flowers and who showed up in person, listening attentively to the eulogy. Those who feel themselves particularly unloved are encouraged to "Attend Your Funeral...
...shopwindow lights are turned off, illuminated billboards are darkened, neon signs stop flashing. Worst of all are the daily blackouts, which hit 48 city zones in turn for periods varying between 30 and 50 minutes beginning at twilight each evening. Elevators stop, TV sets go blank, street lights blink off. As the lights finally return in darkened bars across Rio, a cry rises from dwellers in tall apartment buildings: "Give me one for the elevator...
...peregrinations of Europe's masterpieces than any man alive. But it is not just his huge file of photographs or his unparalleled collection of auction catalogues, or even his incredible memory, that accounts for his ability to spot a fake or dismiss a work of mediocrity within the blink of an eyelid. His father, who fled his native Alsace when the Prussians swarmed through it in 1870 and started the secondhand store in Paris from which the great art empire grew, put his son through a highly personal and rigorous training. When Georges was seven, his father would hold...
...from the Andromeda constellation, a thousand million million miles away. Excitedly, Fleming discovers that the elaborate code is written in binary arithmetic and contains the design for an electronic brain far more sophisticated than any known to earthlings. Once built and plugged in. the space computer goes pocketa-pocketa-blink-thump and hands out a formula for creating human life. The formula, concocted by a human chemist, produces a disappointing first model: a large, jellied blob with...
...problem has nevertheless been sufficiently serious to require consultations with eye specialists. It was recalled that in the 1958 shot, the eyes of experimental rabbits were burned at a range of 370 miles. The bomb's release of energy is so swift that there is not time to blink...