Word: flashing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...playwriting, Red Gloves again reveals Sartre's ability to melodramatize ideas, to make a story suddenly flash with "theater" or a speech with intensity. But Red Gloves takes a good half of the evening to become interesting, and never becomes impressive. Between the two extremes of which Sartre is master-the phony thrill and the incisive speech-lies a whole human world he barely grazes; his situations ring hollow, his people seem paperbacked. Only Hoederer, in Actor Boyer's fine portrayal, has shape or color; indeed, the best of Red Gloves is what Boyer brings...
After hearing strange sounds in the basement, Miss Leathers turned a flash-light on the youth from the top of the cellar stairs "I asked him what he wanted." She said, but he "just stared at me." She immediately yelled to the girls on the ground floor...
...since the spring of 1946, but the other night memories of it, in a hurry, like returning memories always are, came rushing back. I was on the telephone, calling Radcliffe, listening to that old black busy signal that I know so well, when suddenly I remembered everything. In a flash, of course...
...August's windows have just taken shape. No flash or luxury items this year; gadgets, leather cases, etc. are out. Practical wearing apparel is featured in this citadel of tradition, but a new line of ties has sneaked in somehow, and is expected to be successful...
...drivers tried to avoid the deeper holes. An elliptical orange moon popped over the horizon. As we neared the village we passed an artillery position. The dark forms of tanks loomed up against the sky. A 105-mm. gun directly in front suddenly cut loose, its red flash silhouetting for an instant the crouched figures of the gun crew. A pungent smell of gunpowder rolled over the jeep. General Li leaned out and said quietly, "Careful, careful, we are passing under your muzzle...