Word: flashes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...night of my conception," wrote Chogyam Trungpa, who would be cremated in a Vermont mountain meadow before a sizable audience in the spring of this year, "my mother had a very significant dream that a being had entered her body with a flash of light; that year flowers bloomed in the neighborhood although it was still winter...
...presumably, helped get audiences into the picture. But only word of mouth can get them to keep coming. They probably will, for The Untouchables has all the right lures: ripe violence, period flash and the triumph of good over venal. As De Palma puts it, "It's like a John Ford western. A good guy is on a mission and gets help. At the end he walks off into the sunset. It's a simple story told in a classical way." That might seem a bit too simple for De Palma, Mamet, De Niro and the other smart lads...
...music work, which she'll probably loan me if I need it." The thought makes him erupt into laughter. Then the sad face again. "Together our family has about $100,000," he says. He reddens at this sudden turn in the conversation and reaches for his Bible. The flash of anger across his cheeks is palpable...
...Brindel ordered a radio operator to flash a message: "Unknown aircraft. This is U.S. Navy warship on your 078 ((the Stark's bearing relative to the Mirage)) for twelve miles. Request you identify yourself. Over...
Taylor discovered his vocation while at Syracuse on a swimming scholarship. It came as an inexplicable flash, "telling me that I'm to become a dancer -- not any old dancer, but one of the best." The flash was tardy; college is dangerously late to start serious dance training. But Taylor worked on technique, pushing his "instrument" -- as modern dancers like to call their bodies -- ruthlessly, and he was soon studying with the likes of Graham and Jose Limon. Graham became a powerful influence. Much to Taylor's approval, she called her instrument the "bodaah," and he was transfixed...