Word: flashes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Saturn was relatively unknown. It is a gigantic swirling gaseous ball, mostly hydrogen and helium, that could encompass 815 earths, but even with the best telescopes and the most settled atmospheric conditions, it had never been seen as much more than a fuzzy yellow ringed sphere. Now, in a flash of binary bits across space, it had become a clearly recognizable place under the sun, with its own wonders, surprises and mysteries...
Geoff Downes brought texture to the keyboard station at the expense of Wakeman's flash and fun. Downes' solo was a medley of "Man in a White Car," from Drama, and the Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star," which drew absolutely no recognition from the audience. Perhaps Downes didn't realize the difference between FM and AM tunes in this country. Perhaps the audience didn't realize that Horn and Downes were the Buggles...
Pinter abandons the usual tools for needling and prodding an audience into adopting new ideas. His story does not unfold slowly, but weaves backwards, beginning in 1977 and ending in '68 (the skips are irregular: this is not a "flash back each year on Christmas to see how far they've come" manipulation of time). There are no dramatic peaks and valleys, no aesthetically pleasing beginning, middle and end. Gone, too, are the conventional techniques of characterization. Real people, with blood running through their veins, would detract from Pinter's concern with the purely intellectual. Jerry, Emma and Robert...
...flash of what Winston Churchill called the "second coming in wrath" could be seen as far as 250 miles away...
...show him what is happening in each state. A CBS employee in each of those precincts will phone in results to a bank of computer-terminal operators in a soon-to-be demolished Manhattan warehouse. If this information seems to add up to a clear victory, the computer can flash...