Word: flashed
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Until children can be flash-frozen at 12 and thawed out as college juniors, a technological advance that surely will start a new service industry, Rosellen Brown's plot can be counted on to grab a mother or father by the ventricles. Lying awake in sweaty sheets at 3 a.m., any parent of any teenager ! sees an immediate future more or less like Brown's melodrama: a 17-year-old New Hampshire boy named Jacob, no sulkier or more hostile than the next kid, suddenly goes septic and gets himself into hideous trouble. The cops, in fact, think...
...Queen of Sheba, a knee-weakening beauty (don't doubt it; like Meryl Streep, who's also less than a stunner, Whoopi can play beauty). Shove out her jaw, she's a bad-mouth male junkie -- yeah, name's Fontaine, attitude's his game, what's your problem? Flash that 82-toothed thousand- watter, time to watch your wallet. Smile shyly, she's a little kid, you want to give her a glass of milk and a couple of cookies. Thank you, mister...
...former Soviet Union. Two weeks ago, Hurricane Andrew hit the Bahamas, then ripped through Florida and Louisiana. Last week the chain of disasters continued. Tropical Storm Polly drenched eastern China and killed at least 150 people. Typhoon Omar, which had earlier raked Guam, headed for the Philippines. In Afghanistan flash floods swept through the valleys of the Hindu Kush, leaving hundreds dead or missing...
...main advantage will be that hundreds of digital images can be stored on an optical disk and sorted in a flash. They can be recopied endlessly, each new image a perfect replica of the old. They can be transmitted anywhere in the world at nearly the speed of light. And they can be called to a computer screen and cropped, tinted, sharpened or shaded on the fly, giving photo editors at their workstations a taste of the power that writers sitting at their word processors have enjoyed for years...
Biography usually quests for an existence that makes a difference. Dean's specialty was indifference. He did decent work in a few good movies (Some Came Running, Rio Bravo), but passed through others with slight effect, like the gentle baritone rumbling of a distressed stomach. His TV show was flash encircling stupor: the Golddigger chorines did their cooch; the cue-card girl had the script written on her bare midriff. And in the middle, so laid-back as to be supine, was Dino -- on the cutting edge of lumpen-American mediocrity...