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Word: flashes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plane kind of make a slow descent and disappear, and a mushroom of flame shot right into the air," said Boyce Jardine, who was driving nearby. "Actually, there was no noise at all. It was like watching a silent movie." But others heard a sound. "I saw a flash in the sky, like a sunset," said Judy Parsons, another motorist. "Then, in a couple of seconds, I heard an explosion. Then black smoke starting coming up." The witnesses seemed to agree on one vital point: the plane exploded after it plowed into the small trees near Gander Lake, not before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fall of the Screaming Eagles | 12/23/1985 | See Source »

...filmmaker as gifted as Spielberg can cow or neuter his talent forever. The Color Purple is speckled with epiphanies, especially in a flash of crosscutting that magically transplants an African plain, where Nettie has gone as a missionary, behind a Georgia bush; Celie looks up from her hymnal and--wham!--a bulldozer crashes through the chancel of Nettie's church thousands of miles away. None of this bravura, though, has liberated the attractive cast. Whoopi Goldberg suffers knowingly as Celie; Danny Glover, as "Mr.," looks vainly for a note to strike besides befuddled menace; Margaret Avery inhabits Shug without illuminating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Three Faces of Steve the Color Purple | 12/23/1985 | See Source »

Indeed, within those first 40 minutes a film should show some sort of action, instead of narrating the plot while people walk around on the beach. The movie assumes a silly call and answer format, with Joyce's wife telling what happened, followed by a two second flash of some actor doing or saying the exact same thing that Joyce's wife told us he would, kind of like an instant replay...

Author: By T.m. Doyle, | Title: An Epic Failure | 11/1/1985 | See Source »

SENTENCED. Sean Penn, 25, actor (The Falcon and the Snowman) and newlywed husband of trash-flash Rock Singer Madonna; to a $100 fine and a suspended 180-day jail term, after he pleaded no contest to charges of assaulting a reporter and a photographer who were stalking the couple last June; in Nashville...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 28, 1985 | 10/28/1985 | See Source »

...Harvard students weren't born yesterday, though the law might treat them that way, and many under-age students gain two or three years with the flash of card...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fake I.D.'s: Easy to Come By, Harder to Use | 10/11/1985 | See Source »

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