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...grisly murder in horror films wails like a banshee each time. In another sequence, one of the sisters heaves the other, strapped to a straight-backed chair, up a narrow flight of stairs, thumping on each step until they're around the corner and out of sight. In another flash, a chunk of bloody flesh hits the wall. The beauty of all this is that we are given hints of a story without ever being let in on what it's all about. We identify the borrowed horror techniques, like inside jokes, but are kept at arm's length from...
...Jackson in Pacer blue is also depressing, but he had no heart under Pitino, only flash...
...producers of the Evening News with Tom Brokaw--and Tom Brokaw himself--turned around and glanced us up and down. The female executive producer faced us and in a beautifully measured voice commented briefly on her job as a producer and her affection for late-night programming. In a flash, all my allegiance to print was gone. But then she turned away, more interested in NBC gossip than a group of drooling Harvard kids. And kids we were, next to these people who had managed to scramble up the media ladder. We certainly saw what it takes...
Among the improvements was the installation of fire alarms that flash a strobe light in addition to sounding an alarm when activated...
...part, Wiesel weaves his personal and social memory together seamlessly. His memories flash by or linger, their movement evoking the river and sea of his titles. The beginning of the book is restless, hopping from name to name and from event to event. He pulls us, splashing, along the surface of the years. But he soon slows and we sink deeper--into his thoughts about living in the Diaspora, a tension that will return again and again. He delves into long discussions of Reagan's actions in the Bitburg Affair and of French president Francois Mitterrand. His thoughts are fascinating...