Word: flashes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time to rely on a freshman sensation, but this time it had to be a seasoned freshman sensation, one who was not just a flash-in-the-pan, but one who possessed enough consistency to become a sophomore, junior, and senior sensation...
Such moments supposedly provide insight into a hidden reality. In a flash they divulge the inner self, the man behind the mask. They are video epiphanies, what media wizards call a "defining moment." The viewer does not so much receive information as he does an impression. From that impression an opinion may be formed, and based on that opinion, a vote may be cast...
...time to explore issues thoroughly, without the headlong rush against the clock that was, in part, Dan Rather's problem with George Bush. With Firing Line, William F. Buckley Jr. has done a pioneer's work in civilizing discussion on television. But the temptations of television -- spectacle, flash, the short attention span, the sensationalism of the irrational -- are hard to resist. At its worst, television journalism is a form of cartooning, and lately the cartoon style has become more popular...
...dilemma dramatically illustrates a mounting disaster that threatens all of corporate America. After years of trickling increases, insurance premiums that companies pay for group health plans are suddenly swelling at flash-flood rates. The Health Insurance Association of America, an industry trade group, says commercial health insurers are boosting their premiums about 20% this year, vs. just 4% in 1987. Some group health plans have been hit by price increases as high...
...this reliance on technique and surface flash flirts with fashion (Cat Vocalist Ben Volpeliere-Pierrot turned his cap front to back and started a fad) and plays fast and loose with the built-in impermanence of pop. It also makes most Britpop inbred and narcissistic and ripe for a revisionism that may already be happening. Upstart groups like the Godfathers, the Zodiac Mindwarp & the Love Reaction, and Gay Bikers on Acid are harking back to the brash activism and overheated playing of the late-'70s Clash era. In Hull, 150 miles north of the London scene, the Housemartins are purveying...