Word: flash
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Support of a mandatory retirement age does not imply that professors beyond the age of 70 have nothing to offer. There is no stroke of midnight after which one's faculties and abilities disappear in a flash. Institutions like Harvard should continue to make the transition to retirement as easy as possible--allowing professors to retain their offices, as Harvard does, as will as encouraging them to continue teaching. But consideration for individuals should not obscure the fundamental need for a continued retirement age in the Ivory Tower...
...metal would have protected the fuel lines from chafing against other parts inside the crowded engine. After the brazing, however, the pipes became so rigid that they developed hairline cracks during test firings, allowing the highly combustible fuel to escape. Such leaks during a flight could cause a calamitous flash fire...
...folktale--at once pungently earthy and dreamily fantastic. It unfolds to the leisurely rhythms of its own peculiar inner life and logic. It's a magical film, where the horrors of war, the crude beauty and humor of everyday existence, and the wonder of childhood all intersect in a flash of dream and memory...
...crowd at the Grammy Awards last week looked as if it had just flown in from one of the moons of Saturn: glittering, snorting the intergalactic dust. Touches of the high crass mingled with a sort of metaphysical flash. Stevie Wonder, for example, wore a cumulously quilted white satin tuxedo whose upswept lapels formed great angel wings. The costume had the curious effect of making him look like a Puritan headstone...
This crucial question haunts the rest of the film, not explicitly but as the backdrop to the parade of violent--but apparently unconnected--images that flash before our eyes. Is it by government or men that human misery will be cured? As the film ends, it seems that even the most masterful of politicians, a man like Sukarno, is a failure. Weir has no particular ideological axe to grind, but seems to be implying--and one can never be sure about this irritatingly obtuse work--that governments are impotent in the face of the most elemental, human problems. It doesn...