Word: flashful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...courtroom justice touched off the ugliest and most violent anti-American riot in Formosa's history. Unlike many anti-U.S. outbreaks in the Far East and elsewhere in recent years, last week's riot was no carefully organized manifestation of left or right, but a spontaneous, flash-fire uprising. And because it was misunderstood, and its consequences unforeseen, it very nearly became something worse...
Believing with Lao-tzu, the founder of Taoism, that inspiration comes in a flash and cannot be long sustained, the Ch'an painter worked in monochrome "as if a whirlwind possessed his hand." Greatest of them all was Liang K'ai, who had won the Emperor's highest painting award, the Golden Girdle, before he retired to a Buddhist monastery. He dashed off such inspired sketches as his Ink Brushing of an Immortal, showing a monk tearing off his shirt to prove the indifference of the enlightened man to outward appearances...
...Swiss chalet, piped: "When you're 68, you don't want to cut a birthday cake. You want to cut your throat!" Chaplin's devoted wife, Oona O'Neill Chaplin, 31 and soon expecting her sixth child, laughed nervously as Chaplin displayed a frighteningly realistic flash of his old pantomimic genius, faintly tinged with...
...noticed that Ike had taken off his glasses and, with head tilted slightly to the left, was staring thoughtfully into space. Edging past the long-lens cameras used by most other photographers in the White House TV-radio room, Timesman Tames held his Rolleiflex at waist level, aimed his flash high to the left and caught Ike's expression with one exposure null of a second at f.16). When Tames sent a print to be autographed, he learned that the brow-furrowed shot had been chosen by Eisenhower for his first "official" portrait (TIME, Feb. 15. 1954). the picture...
...Dramatic Flash. What Ford needed desperately, Wallace said at the outset, was a name "that flashes a dramatically desirable picture in people's minds . . . Over the past few weeks this office has confected a list of 300-odd candidates which, it pains me to relate, are characterized by an embarrassing pedestrianism. We are miles short of our ambition...