Word: flash
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...back $15,000. The tires--and car--cost extra. Most drivers are barely aware of their wheels, the metal rims that connect the tires to the axle. Back in the Beach Boys era of muscle cars, some guys stuck fancy hubcaps over their wheels to add a little flash. But in recent years the wheels themselves have been getting dressed up, transforming these ordinary auto parts into urban fashion statements, starting with the hip-hop crowd and spreading to suburbanites who drive SUVs. "They're like jewelry for your car," says an auto executive. Indeed, a set of Lexani...
...democracy uprising, which the military brutally crushed. "The generals saw her crowds growing larger," says a diplomat, "and decided they had to stop it." Now, Burma has been locked down. The military has shut all NLD offices nationwide, put party leaders under house arrest and closed universities?traditional flash points of protest. Witnesses to the attack are in hiding and being hunted by security forces. And the generals? Says Aung Zaw, a Burmese opposition figure in exile in Thailand: "They will hang on to the last bullet...
Sharpe distinctly turns to the field judge in search of a flag, and finds none. Just a moment before ABC switches cameras, millions of viewers see a flash of yellow on the field. But Sharpe does not. In celebrating a supposed national championship, he has already turned his back to the official...
...like many roommates do, but at the same time, underlying it all, there was an element of innocent physical contact. Toby would always hold me between his chiseled arms when I felt sad, and Mike and I would walk through campus hand in hand on dark nights. A simple flash of my eyes in Toby’s direction at the Red Party told him that I didn’t want to be alone and we converged on the dance floor to dance like seventh grade friends who didn’t have to worry about the adult consequences...
...just another expat's night in Riyadh. He was watching an Antonio Banderas thriller, curled up on the sofa in his home in al-Jadawel, a gated town-house complex in the Saudi Arabian capital. Suddenly the lights died, and the TV zapped off. Schlageter saw a flash and felt a thundering explosion that blew out all his windows. "I grabbed my cell phone, went upstairs to a secure room, called the U.S. embassy and told them we were under attack," he says. A vehicle loaded with explosives had blown up at the gates of the compound...