Word: blinks
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...lights advanced. I was sitting in a darkened room as the battle played out in front of me. “In what many historians regard as the bloodiest fighting of the entire war…” a recorded narrator intoned. We watched the red lights blink towards the blue lights, hover, and fall back. Three days. And 50,000 casualties.The blonde woman in front of me shook her head. The narrator moved on to the predictable ending. “We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this...
...clearly visible through almost translucent skin. I hold his hands to the blood- and urine-stained mattress as a nurse in flip-flops sticks him repeatedly with a needle, trying to transfuse a unit of expired blood.A fly lands on his eyeball and he doesn’t blink. The intravenous line slips out of his forearm and sprays blood all over the floor. The nurse throws her hands up in the air, chucks the unit of blood in the trash, and bends down to wipe up the mess with a dirty wad of cotton. Yet he doesn?...
...North Korea did not blink, and its launch of six missiles before dawn on Wednesday prompted a hastily convened 7 a.m. meeting in Tokyo between U.S. Ambassador Thomas Schieffer and Japan's Cabinet Secretary, Foreign Minister and Defense Agency Director. "This is a very dangerous thing that [North Korea has] done this morning," Schieffer told reporters after the meeting. The Japanese government, especially its foreign ministry, has been in a state of frenzied activity ever since...
Here's what a conversation with Meryl Streep would look like with the sound off: Talking. Distracted head shake from Sophie's Choice. More talking. Sideways glance into the middle distance from Kramer vs. Kramer. Another, longer set of words. Wearied blink--The French Lieutenant's Woman. Pause. Statement. Huge wicked giggle. It's as if an International Fragile Female Parade collided with a clown car at an intersection. Listen to Streep long enough, and you can see every character she has ever played. But none of them...
Angels and Airwaves “The Adventure” Dir. The Malloys All hail Tom DeLonge! The former guitarist of Blink-182 has seen fit to grace the world with the band Angels and Airwaves, whose songs, according to him, have “the conceptual depth of Pink Floyd, [and] the anthemic architecture of U2…All the songs are very cinematic, anthemic and epic-sounding. The music sounds angelic. Every song gives you the chills and you feel like you want to cry but you’re conquering the world at the same time...