Word: flashed
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...this would sound crazy to anyone who didn't know that it was largely true. As the world has accelerated to the fax and satellite speed of light, attention spans have shortened, and dimension has given way to speed. A whole new aesthetic -- the catchy, rapid-fire flash of images -- is being born. Advertising, the language of the quick cut and the zap, has quite literally set the pace, but Presidents, preachers, even teachers have not been slow to get the message. Thus ideas become slogans, and issues sound bites. Op-ed turns into photo op. Politics becomes telegenics...
Hoke is a grizzled cop, a down-market Columbo, ill at ease in the new Miami of drug millions and Hispanic flash. Junior, who has stolen Hoke's gun, badge and false teeth, is just the sort of criminal throwback Hoke understands. But Junior's girl Susie (Jennifer Jason Leigh) is a mystery. A sweet cracker from upstate, this Princess Not-So-Bright is grateful to Junior for the minutest graces: he eats her cooking and doesn't beat her. She and the con are lost souls sharing a postcard vision of Nirvana: a cloudless beach, a dog leaping...
...this a mind-expanding drug trip? A cult happening? The exercises mandated by an Indian guru? Not at all. The men and women at the Synchro Energize salon were engaged in a serious stress-reduction exercise, seeking to find greater serenity by donning special goggles that flash lights in the eyes and headphones that play tones and songs. This high-tech route to relaxation may sound far out, but it is starting to catch on. About a dozen stress- reduction salons have recently opened in the U.S., and they are beginning to spring up in machine-minded Japan...
Most Bahamians are very friendly folks, much nicer to strangers than Americans are. But there are also a few natives who try to get a little too friendly, especially to tourists who flash their cash. Be careful with your money in the Bahamas and try not to go anywhere by yourself at night...
When U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jay Stephens finally bagged Mayor Marion Barry, he did not sink back into a gray-flannel cocoon of "no comment." Once an anonymous deputy counsel in the Reagan White House whose only attempt at flash was his vanity license plate WH LAW, Stephens is now a rising Republican star. After numerous press interviews about Barry's arrest, he took to the Sunday TV circuit to explain why his sting operation was a triumph...