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Word: flashed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kennedy's assassination became a flash-point in American history. Our parents share our belief that American society has been in steady decline since the '60s: more violent, less prosperous, less hopeful. We do not know what forces have driven our society to the brink; we fear that we could not control them even if we did. Kennedy's bloody death is a focus for our fears, less reality than metaphor: our shining future silenced by gunfire...

Author: By Timothy P. Yu, | Title: Sharing in the Kennedy Mystique | 11/22/1993 | See Source »

...seen often enough on TV: a black man and a black woman in a long-term romance. Recently there's been talk that Lawrence is settling down. "There is someone special in my life," he confides, suddenly as gooey as a Gummi Bear. Then he recovers and in a flash works up the good-natured energy he displays on his sitcom. "But I still love the ladies. Martin loves the ladies!" He's too busy to be too serious. He's a comic on the laugh track to stardom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Black and Blue | 11/22/1993 | See Source »

...curiosity in Bakersfield's white-bread station house, and his new colleagues are naive enough to say what's on their mind. His TV-obsessed partner (Ron Eldard) admits to feeling "a little gypped" that the first black man he has worked with is so lacking in flash. In a sting operation to nab a call-girl ring, Gigante is picked to go undercover as a pimp. He bristles, saying, "I don't see why the color of my skin automatically makes me a prime candidate to portray a pimp." (The captain, bristling back, says he'll get someone else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hill Street Blues on Happy Juice | 11/22/1993 | See Source »

...When I look back on that game," Tom Wynne `69says, "there are so many moments that flash backbefore my eyes. It felt like there were over100,000 people there...

Author: By Y. TAREK Farouki, | Title: The Game Of All Games: The 1968 Match | 11/19/1993 | See Source »

...modern epic" in which Merrill and his lover chat via Ouija board with a plethora of heavenly spirits. For the last few years, Merrill has published almost no poetry: he has, instead, been writing A Different Person, a memoir of his postcollegiate years in postwar Europe. Digressions, meditations and flash-forward passages follow each of the new book's 21 chapters, intended, the poet says, as "reveries suitable for a pillow book, for gossip, for shoptalk...

Author: By Stephen L. Burt, | Title: The Prosaic Reveries of James Merrill | 10/28/1993 | See Source »

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