Word: flashed
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...rare flash of offensive brilliance from a player known better for his bone-crushing checks and hard-nosed play bodes well for a team in need of some offensive spark. The Crimson will need all the goals it can get if it hopes to rebound from last year's disappointing 14-14-2 finish...
...years ago, the Hughes brothers, Allen and Albert, made Menace II Society, a violent melodrama whose film-school flash won kudos. Last year's top novice was Kevin Smith, with his clever, scratchy comedy Clerks. Now these twentysomething phenoms are flouting the sophomore slump--the Hugheses with the epic-size Dead Presidents, Smith with the loosey-goosey comedy Mallrats. Joining them in the ambition to reach a wider audience is gay cult fave Gregg Araki, who gives his new tragi-comedy, The Doom Generation, the cunning subtitle "a heterosexual movie." The director of the homo-erratic dramas The Living...
Harvard football has definitely had a disappointing season to date. Yet in the midst of this frustration, Harvard's special teams have quietly displayed the consistency and occasional flash of brilliance one would not expect to find in a team with a 143 winning percentage...
Employees at aircraft giant Boeing are hoping for their own breakthrough. More than 32,000 members of the machinists union walked off jobs in Kansas, Oregon and Washington State on Oct. 6 after talks on a new contract broke down. Among the flash points was Boeing's growing practice of shifting skilled assembly-line work from U.S. plants to China in order to boost sales to that country. Says George Kourpias, president of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers: "I'm running the Boeing strike, and there's an excitement in the rank and file I haven...
...something the Democrats never achieved." The Senate package revamps Medicare, Medicaid and various other programs, slowing federal spending by $1 trillion over seven years while providing some $245 billion in tax relief. What next? Vice President Al Gore told Larry King last night: "It will be vetoed in a flash." Despite such bravado, Tumulty notes, congressional Democrats have little faith in the President's commitment to stave off Republican demands when a compromise bill is worked out later this fall...