Word: flashes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...California, Nevada and Arizona. Nine Italian tourists and their pilot were killed when a small plane crashed in a thunderstorm near the Grand Canyon. Four other people were killed in accidents related to the freak August cloudbursts in the Southwest. Among them were two motorists who were caught in flash floods that swept through San Bernardino, 65 miles east of Los Angeles. Four inches of rain fell in four hours in the desert area...
...folksy sort of test, carried out with such implements as a pocket flash light, an orange rubber ball, a paper clip, some popcorn kernels. The exam starts when the baby is asleep, and it gauges the infant's reactions to a series of stimuli, including light in the eyes, the sound of rattling, a scratch on the foot: 20 reflexes and 26 behavioral responses in all. After 20 minutes or so, a Brazeltonized baby is wide awake and none too happy about all the testing...
...skies above the Manitoba prairie when Pilot Bob Pearson saw a warning light blink on. The message: fuel in one tank had run out. Seconds later, one engine of the brand-new Boeing 767 coughed and died. As Pearson attempted to restart it, five more warning lights began to flash. Then, the twin-engine jet's other engine stopped. There was nothing but an eerie and chilling silence...
...computer. Familiar brands such as Sony and Sharp are surrounded by scores of less familiar names: Nakamichi, Denon and Oki. At one store can be found 205 varieties of stereo headphones, 100 different color television sets and 75 kinds of record turntables. While some stores are relatively sedate, others flash lights, blast out rock music and station salesmen on the sidewalk to pitch for patrons like French Quarter strip-club touts in New Orleans...
...staple of F. M. Programming, the execrable A.O.R., or to M. T. V., a veritable case-study in segregation. And there's no question that funk, which Black performers like James Brown invented and nourished, is--crudely speaking--the forte of these artists--from Rick James to Grandmaster Flash, to name the big ones. Last heard Rick James couldn't even get on MTV. It will be fascinating to see if the predominately white Talking Heads can break into the popular mainstream and all its institutions with the Black sound of Speaking in Tongues. If they do, the implications...