Word: blinks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...turned into a neurotic adolescent haunted by unspecified guilts. He could only assuage them with religion. "Dogma," he was to conclude, "does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought." The childless man endlessly tried to recapture a youthful sense of wonder; almost all his works blink out at the world as if they were seeing it for the first time. Yet when he could tear himself away from toy theaters and critiques about "The Ethics of Elfland," he could toss off mature, insightful analyses of Browning and Dickens, marred primarily by their inaccurate quotes...
What a build-up it is, Super Bowls generally are planned three years in advance. Television advertising runs about $375,000 per half-minute and companies don't blink. And, each year, half of America becomes transfixed. At no other time do so many people do precisely the same thing. There is not one comparable money maker: Super Bowl XVII will generate about $100 million for the television network, football league and host city...
...impossible to watch this plot unfold without rooting for the underdog and then remembering that Cruz is as bad as his pursuers, a wildcat crook with delusions of grandeur. Palmer does not blink at Cruz's venomous ethics, but he sinks this character in a landscape of almost unrelieved corruption. He portrays a Miami and environs where the heat is always on: "The sun was a bludgeon hanging over the landscape, poised to smash whatever might attempt to set itself above the level, and nothing larger than a dragonfly dared to venture into its sight; not from lassitude...
...refused to blink...
With visions of herpes sores clouding each new encounter, would-be lovers who used to gaze romantically into each other's eyes now look for the telltale blink or averted glance of the dissembling herpetic. One male skeptic even called the best friend of a woman he wanted to sleep with and asked if his intended had the disease. In the new etiquette of the ailment, a direct question ("You don't have herpes, do you?") is regarded as tacky. Standard openings have evolved. "You would tell me if you had anything I could catch, wouldn't you?" is admired...