Word: flash
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shower. Bridget Riley's paintings are nearly always made of such a formal unit-dot or stripe or ellipse-repeated and multiplied with tiny changes of position, tone or color. Through repetition, the force builds up. Then it peaks, like a laser emitting its stored energy in one flash. The serial changes (which may be no more than the slow rotation of a geometric "blip" of paint, happening a thousand times on one canvas) subvert, and at last explode, what would otherwise be a rigid order. "Everybody lives through states of disintegration but then finds something stronger that...
...unlike Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy. Near the end of Superstar, the authors invite comparisons between radicals, old and new, using the voice of Judas, who appears this time as a kind of 20th century Everyman, not in a flashback, but in a 2,000-year flash-forward...
Soon a door on the side of the stage opened slowly. The crowd gasped. But it was only the emcee. After offering a few words, he unfurled one of the Bobby Sherman posters on sale in the lobby. For the first time that evening, the crowd screamed hysterically. Flash bulbs popped. He promised that after a brief intermission, Bobby would be theirs. Pandemonium...
...then it happened. Bobby came to us. The door opened again and there he was, walking out to the center of the stage. Flash bulbs went crazy; it was practically daylight in there for five seconds. I had to cover my ears...
CORNELL-YALE: Looks as if Cornell may be flash in the pans, too. And with Furbush injured, the Big Red isn't likely to get any better. I'd expect Marinaro to gain more than the 30 yards he picked up last year against Yale, especially since the Elis' linebacker Bob Perschel is out, but not enough to win. If Cornell had defeated Harvard, maybe I could be more optimistic, but after all. Yale...