Word: flashes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Resentment reached the flash point with Washington Post Editorial Page Editor Meg Greenfield when she "looked at the disaster area that is my desk and saw that everything on it had two or three p.r. firms' names on the letterhead." Greenfield sent a fiery memo to Post Executive Editor Ben Bradlee. "We don't want any of that damned crowd around here," she wrote. "If people want to get to us ... it's as easy as pie, so long as they don't come in (or send their manuscripts in or make a request...
...print out the result. The third tells the computer to go on to each of the succeeding values, all the way through 30. Finally, the program tells the computer to call it a day, its job having been done. Even the smallest machine can do such calculations in a flash, compared with the hours of work they might require of human computers...
...industrial robots. Australia is building a wind-power facility, and the $21 million U.S. pavilion, which will house a giant movie screen and talking computers, is to be powered in part by a 5,000-sq.-ft. rooftop solar energy collector. There will be plenty of mindless flash and hubbub as well: clog dancing, exhibition basketball (featuring the Boston Celtics and the Philadelphia 76ers) and football (the New England Patriots, the Pittsburgh Steelers), high school marching bands, fireworks, clowns and a souped-up roller coaster that cruises at fearsome speeds. "The World's Fair is going...
...problem, Chafin said, is preventing the initial theft that gives a criminal an identification card and access to the facilities "They steal wallets containing an ID and they keep them and come back on campus and flash them," he said...
...innocent woman (and the audience) thinks she is being stalked by the cat woman, in a park and a natatorium. The high points of the first film's terror, they seem pale and out of place in this gaudy but insecure film, which is all flesh and flash, never truly passionate or frightening. These sequences, in this context, become tributes not so much to a nostalgically recalled genre piece, but to the movies' long since vanished powers of suggestion. In those days, wit was employed to scare the wits out of people, and it was possible to speak...