Word: flashes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Zalmie is wounded while performing in a USO show during World War One and returns home, maturing into a sort of Vito Corleone. America becomes the battleground, and Al Capone-style gang killings flash left and right, suspended in a vacuum, as "Sweet Georgia Brown" trumpets on the soundtrack. After Zalmie's wife is gunned down, he goes to his son Benny who is playing jazz with blacks, and pleads, "If you won't live my dream, at least live my life"--a characteristically melodramatic clinker that calls embarassing attention to itself...
...hours before they were to take the ice, Santee reflected on their mutual past: "We've known each other from the first competition I ever skated in. We always considered one another to be like brothers." Santee has been the prodigy, a flash who entered senior competitions at 14, only to have his spirit broken by repeated defeats by older skaters. Santee helped revive his confidence by imagining himself as Sylvester Stallone preparing for the big bout in Rocky. He even made the film's sound track his skating music. Now he prepared for one last fight...
After the bomb test at the Trinity site in Almagordo, nothing or no one was the same: it wasn't just the response of one woman who, miles away, couldn't understand why her blind sister could see the brilliant flash: more importantly, it was the reaction of scientists like Oppenheimer, who realized that they had seen the most powerful force in the universe demonstrated before their unbelieving eyes. As Robert Serber, a scientist who worked on the project, said. "It was some kind of beauty." But as the lesson of Hiroshima--where, as brother Frank Oppenheimer recalled with obvious...
...flash of cameras, the growls of newshounds, the whisper of rumors are very much a part of royal life. Lady Diana's "baptism by fire, with the press as high priest," editorialized the Yorkshire Post, "was almost a planned test." And, the paper added, she "has shown herself fit to be a Queen...
Then, apparently, the driver decided to forget the whole thing. The next stop was Main Street, and when he got there, in what seemed to be a flash of lightning, he flung both doors open wide. He and his black antagonist looked at each other in the rearview mirror; in a second the windbreaker and the porkpie hat were gone. The little woman was standing preaching to the whole bus about the Government's gift of these seats to the blacks; the white man with the brown shoes practically fell out of the door in his hurry. I followed...