Word: blurring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...arrival possible." In recent years, Rickey's pliers - along with welding torch and sheet-metal cutters - have produced whole families of curiously moving metal sculptures that gambol and gimbal in the wind, slicing segments of time like pendulums or spinning until the sunlight splinters into a spectral blur (see color...
...enemy soldiers on the sound theory that he cannot be convicted of trying to escape. He is right. He is ignored in his transparent house. The enemy cannot grasp this military absurdity; they do not really "see" this most visible of men, and they, of course, are only a blur to him. This is the first of many paradoxes that Dennis develops in this deceptively simple tale...
...Great Congress." And so they may. But few would claim that the 89th's finest hours came in 1966. After a historic first session that passed 105 important bills, the Congress generally thumb-twiddled its way through its second session, only to burst into a fevered eleventh-hour blur of action that added little to its luster...
...another effect. Ironically, television, which had given such a boost to the civil rights movement, began to obstruct it and contribute mightily to the white blacklash. "Take the case of some recent footage on the Atlanta riots," says M.I.T. Political Scientist Harold Isaacs. "What you saw was a black blur of a face...
...realist. "He knows," says the narrator (Burgess Meredith), "that God is dead, that innocence is a fraud and guilt a disease, happiness a myth and despair a pose. And that vice is no more interesting than virtue." Henry works as a termite exterminator and looks like a large unshaven blur. Lorabelle (Ina Mela) is an idealist. "She believes in everything. In Providence and butterflies, romance and statuary." She plays all day long, sniffing flowers and feeding ducks, and looks like the dew on the wings of a wish...