Word: flash
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plane kind of make a slow descent and disappear, and a mushroom of flame shot right into the air," said Boyce Jardine, who was driving nearby. "Actually, there was no noise at all. It was like watching a silent movie." But others heard a sound. "I saw a flash in the sky, like a sunset," said Judy Parsons, another motorist. "Then, in a couple of seconds, I heard an explosion. Then black smoke starting coming up." The witnesses seemed to agree on one vital point: the plane exploded after it plowed into the small trees near Gander Lake, not before...
...filmmaker as gifted as Spielberg can cow or neuter his talent forever. The Color Purple is speckled with epiphanies, especially in a flash of crosscutting that magically transplants an African plain, where Nettie has gone as a missionary, behind a Georgia bush; Celie looks up from her hymnal and--wham!--a bulldozer crashes through the chancel of Nettie's church thousands of miles away. None of this bravura, though, has liberated the attractive cast. Whoopi Goldberg suffers knowingly as Celie; Danny Glover, as "Mr.," looks vainly for a note to strike besides befuddled menace; Margaret Avery inhabits Shug without illuminating...
Indeed, within those first 40 minutes a film should show some sort of action, instead of narrating the plot while people walk around on the beach. The movie assumes a silly call and answer format, with Joyce's wife telling what happened, followed by a two second flash of some actor doing or saying the exact same thing that Joyce's wife told us he would, kind of like an instant replay...
SENTENCED. Sean Penn, 25, actor (The Falcon and the Snowman) and newlywed husband of trash-flash Rock Singer Madonna; to a $100 fine and a suspended 180-day jail term, after he pleaded no contest to charges of assaulting a reporter and a photographer who were stalking the couple last June; in Nashville...
...Harvard students weren't born yesterday, though the law might treat them that way, and many under-age students gain two or three years with the flash of card...