Word: flash
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Saul, with eunuchs, concubines and vicious intrigues; and later in David's court--cleaner but just as doomed. On a deeper level it is a philosophical statement on the meaning of faith, a grappling with the question of foreknowledge in an ill-fated life. If one got a flash of one's future, how would this affect the choices eventually made? A complex and sophisticated juxtaposition of two Davids, young and old, prepares a special meaning for the last line of the play--"Praise the Lord...
...m.p.h. mini-dragster called "the Hud." It looks deceptively like a 1973 Camaro. But, lightened by a fiber-glass body and fueled by explosive nitromethane, the car can streak down a quarter-mile from a standing start in 6½ seconds. To achieve that flash of glory, two Chicago pipefitters labored five hours a night, putting together the right combination of engine, transmission and body. "Your car not only has to run fast, it has to look good," says the Hud's wrench (chief mechanic), Tom Jordan, 33. "If your $1,500 paint gets chipped, that...
Students seemed generally resigned to increased security though many were not happy with the nuisance of coming down to the main entry to let friends in. Comments about the door ranged from "classy," to "a real pain," and one student said, "It's like Flash Gordon...
...notes" cover nine topics ranging freely from keeping the revolution red to keeping the countryside green. The essays flow smoothly from one to another, together they form a cohesive work, filled with perceptive observations. But as a collection, they assume a greater purpose. She gropes for that single flash of insight that would make sense of the rhetoric and the horror stories that filter through Hong Kong to Sunday supplements of American newspapers, that frighten many Americans and bewilder the rest. That flash of insight is absent...
Aunt Augusta crowds the apartment she shares with Wordsworth with souvenirs of her continental high life, but they give it only a faded ratty elegance. Her dresser-gleams with mirrors, powder jars and pin bowls; glass ornaments flash ever-where--curlicue knicknacks, gold cherubs, and a chandelier like an overturned wedding cake, are cheap reminders of now hollow dreams. For at seventy, she is unmarried, childless, and penniless, and the mauve colored gauze through which she views her world cannot protect her from...