Word: blinks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that is unimportant, for Blink has two terrific things going for it. One is director Michael Apted's gritty use of Chicago as a setting. He makes you feel the wind in your bones, and he puts its blue-collar toughness in your face all the time. The other is Madeleine Stowe...
...intensity was visible but somewhat shaded in Short Cuts and The Last of the Mohicans. In Blink she lets it rip. Emma Brody, blinded in early childhood, plays the violin in an Irish rock band, and onstage she looks ethereal. Offstage her anger is like an exposed nail; it catches and tears at everyone who brushes against it. As the result of an operation, Emma begins to recover her sight, and curiously that renders her vulnerable. A world of blurs and shadows is scarier to her than the darkness she has known. One of these developing shadows, as it happens...
Wilson's father didn't blink when his son changed his goal from aeronautical engineering to law and politics during his senior year in high school. And his father similarly avoided pressuring his son, when Wilson was deciding between the Rotary fellowship and Goldman Sachs...
Sereno is even more interested in the question of how dinosaurs managed to take over the world. One thing is clear from his Argentine excavations: it happened quickly. In Eoraptor's day, dinosaurs were rare. Ten million years later, however -- the blink of an eye in geologic terms -- many reptiles and crocodilians were in steep decline, while dinosaurs were headed toward dominance...
...office. These days, most secretaries work as the single clerical support for the ten to fifteen workers of a specific section. It is the secretary who knows: how to fix the copier without calling the service person, who to call when the voice mail system goes on the blink, when every flex-time employee will actually be in the building, how to get accounting to reimburse funds even though the receipt is lost and where the copy of a bill that was sent out two years ago will be filed. It is also the secretary who must maneuver between competing...