Word: flash
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rearrange their vocabulary. Upbeat statistics, from strong department-store and auto sales to improved housing starts, suggest that consumers are regaining their confidence faster than expected, and surprised forecasters are rushing back to their computers to come up with rosier predictions. Last week the Commerce Department released a preliminary "flash" estimate that the U.S. gross national product was growing at a 6.6% annual rate, after adjustment for inflation, during the April-June quarter, up from 2.6% in the year's first three months. Many economists believe that second quarter G.N.P. growth may actually hit a sizzling 8% annual rate...
...voice twinkling, Ronald Reagan interrupted his regular Saturday radio address with what he called a "news flash." Said the President: "Some years ago, a favorite movie theme was the crusading reporter-hat on the back of his head, clutching the phone-[who] would yell, 'Give me the city desk, I've got a story that'll crack this town wide open!' I've read that line a few times myself. Well, I'm not wearing a hat or clutching a phone. But I'd Like to make an important announcement. I have, today...
...England, Passion's title was Passion Play. The music of the Dies Irae boomingly punctuates some scenes, and the drama has a neoreligious subtext. James and Eleanor proclaim themselves atheists, but they are wistfully haunted by the death of God. While ranting about his right to "a flash of happiness before the void," James curses Christianity and Jesus Christ for depaganizing mankind: "The Christians took over the language of sexual emotion for their own purposes -passion, love, adoration, ecstasy . . . those words are now more meaningless than the so-called dirty words...
...shrewd to imagine, however, that an artist is the sum of his quirks. Hitchcock's brilliance was entangled with his personal grotesqueries, but it was real brilliance. He grew up with the film industry, and at his best gave movies a dazzling visual impudence: the single flash of color in the black-and-white Spellbound, as the pistol of the suicidal villain flares red; the wicked eroticism of Janet Leigh's shower scene in Psycho, a film that, as Spoto points out, takes pains to make the viewer queasily aware of being a voyeur. Hitchcock's final...
DIED. Larry ("Buster") Crabbe, 75, former swimming champion and 1930s film star best known as the original Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers; in Scottsdale, Ariz. After winning a gold medal in the 1932 Olympics, he moved to Hollywood, eventually calling himself "King of the Serials" for his intrepid science-fiction roles. Crabbe later became a fitness and exercise advocate, swimming a steady two miles a day well into...