Word: flash
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Eastern Ground Self-Defense Forces, sunshine bathed the midday. Mishima had arrived on the threshold of his life's climactic act. It was the sort of act, Japanese Literary Critic Kenkichi Yamamoto wrote later, that "reached its apex in one pyrotechnic explosion beyond time and space-one flash in the darkness and nothing else...
Collin Mangrum and Mark Faller at 158 and 167 pounds respectively, turned in "workman-like performances," said Lee. Faller did show a flash of brilliance as he shot into his rival for a quick takedown to break a 1-1 deadlock with 55 seconds remaining in the final period. He advanced to score two points on a predicament and capture a 5-2 victory. Mangrum won his bout...
...Saigon's version of Meet the Press, the My Lai incident, to cite one example, was amply reported. Still, most of the fare is heavy and hard-sell. THVN does not run commercials, but slogans such as COMMUNISTS ARE BLOODTHIRSTY PEOPLE OR TO ACCEPT PEACE UNCONDITIONALLY IS SUICIDE, flash on during station breaks. Government ministries sponsor hortatory weekly series with resistible titles like The Voice of Mobilization. Vietnamese TV has yet to produce any stars. Even a Cronkite would have a tough time coming across on THVN newscasts, which are unaccountably aired with tunes like Mrs. Robinson and Love...
...time he was 26, Ludwig had acquired an antique oil tanker, one of the first half-dozen ever built. The tanker business has brought him wealth, but it also nearly killed him. In 1926, he went below decks to rescue two sailors overcome by gasoline fumes. A flash explosion killed the sailors and hurled Ludwig 25 feet through the air, fusing three vertebrae in his back. Even today, after a risky operation, he suffers recurring pains...
...more likely that he is a technician in search of a creative imagination. His visuals in riverrun are on no higher a level of achievement than the plot-in a narrative film, how could they be? Korty's editing and camerawork go in either for slap-happy pastoral or flash-backing exposition. There are only a few instances when writer-director-photographer Korty shows any flair for metaphor. When Sarah reminisces about sitting with her dying mother, the camera pans up the thin tube rising from her mother's arm to the vial of plasma, a sterile white building jutting...