Word: flash
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...earliest and most persistent antiwar Senators, McGovern began building a small but strong following with his co-sponsorship of the 1968 McGovern-Hatfield resolution calling for an end to the war. Though unsuccessful, the legislation occasioned a rare flash of fire from the quiet man. "Every Senator in this chamber is partly responsible for sending 50,000 young Americans to an early grave," McGovern fumed. "This chamber reeks of blood!" When Robert Kennedy was assassinated, McGovern sought to keep Bobby's antiwar supporters together by entering the race in his stead less than three weeks before the 1968 convention...
...view the surprising calm with which Leon Russell goes through the entire show, a look of distance on his face, wondering perhaps why he is stuck in back of a bank of amplifiers instead of playing out front as he usually does. Even during "Jumpin Jack Flash" when Harrison has ripped off his coat and the band is playing at a lever pitch. Russell stares vacantly across the stage, hardly working up a sweat, yet creating an air of excitement with his vocal and piano work...
...least a year everyone has been asking, and Actress-Singer Diahann Carroll and David Frost have been answering: "We don't believe in engagements-we believe in happiness." Last week in London, Diahann pulled off a glove to flash a ruby solitaire on her engagement finger. Naturally, reporters were on hand to ask the familiar question. "We are having a super time together," David said helpfully...
...wrote Thomas de Quincey in Confessions of an English Opium Eater, "did my architecture proceed in dreams." Today, for an audience soaked in cheap psychedelia, Piranesi's prisons are a reminder that only complex and fastidious minds have trips that are worth recalling. They do not represent a flash of hallucination, but rather a state of mind, developed over a long span of time. Piranesi's stupendous architectural memory mutated involuntarily into dream and revealed the scope of his ambitions with a grandiosity that could not have been attained by any of the designs that he actually meant...
...some scientists), very low power consumption (much less than that needed even by a tiny flashlight bulb) and, like the transistor, a high resistance to shock and other abusive treatment. Most important of all, they can be easily assembled into miniature electronic displays that form numbers in a flash...