Word: blinks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lawmen guess Dallas hightailed it back to Paradise Hill, a one-blink junction in northern Nevada. Bloodhounds tracked his scent to a barstool, then to an unmade bed in a nearby trailer and finally to an abrupt end at Highway 95. Though every waitress and cowhand between Boise and Reno seems to know Dallas, no one admits spotting him since the jailbreak...
Last week the Hacker was busy talking about Macintosh utilities. It's nice to have a program that can help the computer famous for its terminal cuteness wink and blink in style...
...growing crisis of confidence in the functions of Wall Street itself. Over the past decade, the place where American business raises money for its operations and expansion has been transformed into a high-tech, high-volume supermarket in which institutional investors move billions of dollars in the blink of an electronic eye. In all, some $130 billion in stocks, bonds and other securities now change hands daily simply on the basis of telephone calls alone...
...fifth man shakes his head in disagreement. "But he was intense," he says. "When he put that helmet on, he didn't blink until he took...
...Meet -- as if you hadn't met them in Southern literature a hundred times before -- the irrepressible outcast (Rosanna Arquette), the sensitive wanderer (Eric Roberts) in search of Miz Right, the good-ole-girl barmaid (Mare Winningham), the ex-jock with itchy trousers (Jim Youngs). In her eye blink of a role, Winningham is a buoyant delight, and Youngs nicely fleshes out his cardboard stud, but everyone else goes under in a sea of mannerisms. Arquette brings a clangorous winsomeness to the sort of cracked-belle character that the young Katharine Hepburn portrayed so majestically in Morning Glory and Alice...