Word: flash
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John plays down the crazy flash of his in-person appearances. "Since I'm not your rangy rock idol in skinny leather pants, I wear flamboyant clothes. People shouldn't take the clothes and the dyed hair so seriously. Honestly, it's just a joke. I'm affectionately parodying the rock-'n'-roll business by saying 'Here it is, let's all have a laugh and enjoy ourselves.' " There have been no acid-rock-style riots at his concerts. Somehow, right from the stage, he manages to get across...
...lumpy seven-foot sea. Yet no great crises occur: the snorkeling on the coral (especially in the Tobago Cays, an underwater reserve) is among the best in the Caribbean; jack and pompano bite in the shallows, the sun shines all day and plops into the ocean with a green flash straight out of a tourist leaflet; and on island after island the beaches are empty, not yet speckled with condominiums. Privacy is the reward of bareboating-not to mention a new and addictive confidence about sailing...
...film the texture of everyday life. Just as affairs in reality are a series of fits and starts, with little coherence while they are experienced, so Paul and Adriana's passion and despair, their conversations and lovemaking, occur in non-linear succession, separated from one another by the flash on the screen of the day's date and the unsettling sound of random, atonal notes played on percussion instruments...
...Flash-Boom. For Shigeto, the job of treating Hiroshima's survivors began moments after pikadon (Japanese for "flash-boom"). For a moment he paused, listening to the screams of pain that filled the air, and asked himself, "God, how on earth could a single doctor handle this mountain of patients." Then, although stunned by the explosion, Shigeto knelt, opened his black bag and began to treat the man lying at his feet, only to yield to the victim's pleas that his wife be treated first. After administering first aid to the couple, Shigeto turned his attention...
...Conversion), and now in fossilized Maugham. Bergman has treated each of these dilapidated vehicles as if it were the Queen's own royal barouche wheeling through the gates of Buckingham Palace. Indeed, Elizabeth II would not fault Bergman's acting technique-a tilt of the head, a flash of a smile and the wave of a hand...