Word: flashes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...special preserve, existing within its own metaphorical Qualities and ways of providing the fan with unexpected insights into human nature. "At the base of sport is a beauty, grace and excellence that is true to life," says Callahan. "The games themselves don't mean much, but a flash of perfection does something to the spirit that is worthwhile. People don't watch sport just to pass the time. They bring a passion to it. The best of sport is a kind of art, a ballet with its own virtuoso performances...
...solitary album constitutes little on which to build a legend. Quite possibly, Crenshaw will be just another of rock's firecrackers, sparkling brilliantly for a few seconds and then disappearing forever. But his album bears too much promise, indeed too much immediate confirmation, to dismiss Crenshaw as a flash...
Undergraduates during the early Sixties had grown up with civil defense drills--"ducking under the desk at the flash, and so on," as Hertzberg puts it. But the former campus reporter, president of the Harvard Liberal Union and current editor of The New Republic is one of several Harvard students of his generation who recalls almost no contemplation of the actual consequences of a nuclear explosion: "It was rather more general than that, a fear that we would somehow end up in nuclear war, but not exactly what would happen in that war." George B. Kistiakowsky, a retired chemistry professor...
...through the Yellow Pages, but across the keyboard of a computer console. Using the small video terminal that has been provided by the state-owned French telephone company, she punches a few keys and then taps out the words DISCOS-RENNES. Seconds later the names, addresses and telephone numbers flash on the screen. She then hits another button and an illustrated advertisement appears on the screen. It reads: "Pym's American Bar, dancing nightly, 10 p.m. to 2 a.m., all year round." Voil...
...Oakland flash breaks the record and keeps on going