Word: blinks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...slaked or comically thwarted during the novel there appears one new to Wolfe's fiction. For all their affluence, or their pained lack of same, his chief characters hunger for a code of conduct or a framework of beliefs that will make sense of their lives right now, a blink before the millennium. At its heart, A Man in Full is a cliff-hanging morality tale...
...live in (barring perhaps the world of unemployment, but even that has some duties that require attention) has so many obligations and duties that your time at Harvard may seem to have been nothing more than a brief nap. And brief it is--four years is hardly a blink in the timeline of our lives. Yet these years are supposed to be the best of our lives. Why not be happy...
...commercial--call it a blink ad, for obvious reasons--depicts the company's signature image, a bullet shredding but not opening a lock, together with the logo. The ads are part of a campaign that also uses 30-sec. spots for Master Lock padlocks...
...great idea," says Richard Kirshenbaum, co-chairman of Kirshenbaum Bond & Partners. However, he and other admen say blink ads can't introduce products but they can certainly reinforce such icons as McDonald's Golden Arches...
...children when they were children, one at a time, standing on a lawn or on a playground, waiting for the ball to reach them. Their hug-me arms waver in the hot, wet air, as if they are attempting to embrace something vast and invisible. Their eyes blink in the sunlight. They stagger and stumble...