Word: flash
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...catatonic coolness, Gary recalls the season mainly in brief episodes, told without emotion as though he does not understand their significance. As he tells the history of that year, it seems as though one of the nuclear board-games he plays with Lieutenant Staley may come to life and flash the whole struggling crew to atoms in the puff of a mushroom cloud...
...anything so prosaic as hide the pills in those spare moments of common sense when he wondered, as he must have wondered, what effect his death would have on his small child? For all we learn, Alvarez might just as well be a tongue-tied stockbroker. The only flash of revelation comes after his recovery. He speaks of the source of his earlier despair as a prolonged adolescent expectation of life. Afterward he realized that he was simply and undramatically unhappy: "I had accepted that there weren't ever going to be any answers, even in death...
...Giants that cost the Mets one minor league player, at least $50,000 cash and a five-year contract with Mays that will run to more than $500,000. Mays, at 41, had been batting only .184 in San Francisco. But he promptly responded to his homecoming with a flash of his old form. In his first game as a Met, playing against his former Giant teammates, he hit a game-winning home run. Again, last week against Philadelphia, he hit another winning homer. Later in the week, after the Mets had lost two in a row, Mays batted...
...After all, a two-record set is a pretty ambitious undertaking and the Stones have always been at their best when least ambitious. The last time they overstepped their natural boundaries, they produced the relatively lousy Their Satanic Majesties Request, but then they followed it up with "Jumping Jack Flash," Beggar's Banquet, and "Honky Tonk Women." A Stones fanatic can only hope they'll pull themselves together after this current minor fiasco and prove once more that they are indeed the world's finest and most durable rock and roll band. I still cherish my collection of Stones records...
From its inception, it has criticized Muskie and Democratic National Committee Chairman Lawrence O'Brien as standpatters. When McGovern announced his candidacy early last year, the New Democrat hailed the news as "a flash of hope in a darkening landscape." Schlesinger advised his readers to "eschew the Muskie bandwagon until, regrettably, that is the only one remaining," but held off formally endorsing McGovern in print until last month, lest the publication be dismissed out of hand as a McGovern mouthpiece. Now that Muskie's candidacy has collapsed, the monthly has turned its fire on Hubert Humphrey...