Word: blinkingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bands of today, I hope you all have been paying close attention to this concert and this band, because raw rock talent like R.E.M. comes around once in a millennium. They haven't resorted to exhortations of violence or kitschy and cutesy covers or amalgamations of genres to survive. Blink and you'll miss most rock music, but R.E.M. and their rapid eye movement have perfected the skill of slowing down to remember the past even while hurtling forward into the future...
...agreed to talk on the condition that he not be named. "A video game is all about adrenaline, and the easiest way to trigger adrenaline is to make someone think they're going to die," he explained. One of the tricks of the trade is to concentrate on the "blink rate." It's an old Madison Avenue ad-agency gimmick, he said. "People stop blinking if an ad has their attention. Same here--if you're into a game, your pupils dilate and your blink rate slows down." The body and brain become fully involved--so much so that dopamine...
After the NASDAQ dropped 5.6% on Monday, wounded highflyers regained their strength for the umpteenth time. "Tech and Internet enthusiasts are hard to keep down," observes Byron Wien, analyst at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. So AOL, which went from $167 to $116 in a blink, was quickly back at $146. Amazon.com poster child for Internet speculation, shot from $184 to $159 to--gads!--$210. With lightning speed the reversal was reversed, and what had been shaping up as a seismic shift in the market turned out to be just a sneeze...
Since 1975, a joint admissions office has admitted men and women to Harvard and Radcliffe. Upon admission to Radcliffe, women have been enrolled "in the blink of an eye," Lewis has been known to say, in Harvard...
Most victims of paralysis retain, at the very least, the ability to communicate. Even with limbs, tongue, lips and vocal cords immobilized, patients can blink their eyes to answer yes or no. But for a few patients--such as those with advanced cases of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig's disease, in which the voluntary nervous system is utterly destroyed--even that minimal dialogue is impossible. These people are at the mercy of others in the deepest imaginable...