Word: flashes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dinosaurs take over the earth to the impassioned strains of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. An adorable clutch of baby tricerotopses hatches from eggs; sloe-eyed brontosauruses wade in marshes; a bony-backed stegosaurus struggles for its life against the meat-eating Tyrannosaurus rex. But as the years flash by, the world mysteriously grows hotter and more violent: swamps evaporate, earthquakes trigger giant tidal waves, and the princely reptiles crawl across an encroaching desert to meet their certain doom...
...yogurt was on my spoon. I saw it in a flash. The whole experience. Natural, whole-milk...
...about failure, about the emptiness that remains in the scholarly grasp of anyone who tries to completely recapture the past. At one point, Braithwaite says in an aside: "I know this. Sometimes the past may be a greased pig; sometimes a bear in its den; and sometimes merely the flash of a parrot, two mocking eyes that spark at you from the forest." Braithwaite's--and the novel's--wisdom lies in his realization that the overgrown byways of literary history may not lead anywhere in particular, but the stroll itself yields immeasurable self-understanding. He does find many guises...
...country where Prime Ministers do not normally give fireside chats on television, Nakasone's speech was an extraordinary event. But then, these are not ordinary times for Japan. American impatience with Japan's slowness in opening its markets has reached a flash point, putting economic relations between the two countries in their most precarious position in decades. Nakasone recognized that dramatic action was needed to defuse the confrontation and preserve a trading partnership that has enriched both the U.S. and Japan...
Then the electronic scoreboard began to flash messages about...