Word: flashes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...know. You see it on TV. It's a flash and it's gone...
...still subscribes to Variety, of course, but for Deborah Raffin, 29, the hottest flash on her career these days comes from China. It seems that a few years ago her Nightmare in Badham County-one of those young-girls-from-the-city-up-against-a-violent-small-town TV dramas-was released in Chinese movie theaters and became a monster hit, with more than 2.5 million seeing it in Shanghai alone. So when her 1980 movie, Touched by Love, is released in China next month, she will fly over for the first movie promotion tour ever by a Western actress...
WHEN THE BOMB DROPS, a woman will watch from the banks of the Potomac, recording the colors of the clouds after the first blinding flash. She is Linda Pastan, author of five poetry collections including the new PM:AM: New and Selected Poems...
Last week the firm unveiled its newest offering to the point-and-shoot crowd: a super-high-speed color print film-that promises to reduce greatly the need for flash attachments and light meters even in relatively dim settings...
Author Susanna Moore, 33, tells both of these stories in alternating chapters; Lily the child is a character in the past, while Lily the grown woman narrates the flash-forwards. This method of jumping forth and back is initially disconcerting but ultimately effective. Lily coexists as daughter and mother, a survivor of a history of losses...