Word: flashing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...never displaying the sheer virtuousity he has shown himself to be capable of. At the start of the song, for example, he offers only a few bars of tasty rag picking before drowning the guitar out in a melange of horns, mandolin, bass and drums. Although the absence of flash is somewhat disappointing, Bromberg's restraint makes for a well-integrated, solid sound...
Weekes believes that in most cases psychoanalysis is the wrong approach. She has found that prolonged stress or shock?a death, divorce or birth ?can turn ordinary anxiety into a flash of panic. Then, she says, "the fear that it will recur keeps a person within a restricted orbit. What's the use of looking into that person's childhood for an explanation...
...offer. Accordingly, the British provided the West Germans with 1) special, highly sensitive listening devices for locating the terrorists within the plane and 2) a supply of British "stun grenades," which explode without scattering metal fragments, but can immobilize an enemy for about six seconds with their sound and flash. The stun grenades-along with two experts from Britain's crack Special Air Service regiment-were soon en route to Dubai...
...Osgood makes his second approach to the bomb in Westminster Abbey, calmly reporting his progress. And disappears in a great flash of blue light. When Thomas, who is stunned by the blast, recovers consciousness, he finds that a new and much cleverer bomb maker is working for the terrorists. He must deal with the man because there is no one else...
...occasion become condescension, most annoyingly with regard to the female dancers ("she's so sweet you could sip her through a straw"), but such lapses of taste are rare. More often, Mazo brings fragments of the life sharply into focus with his knack for daring imagery ("feet flash out and back like darting fish"), and what could have been either an uncritical catalogue or a collection of gossip succeeds instead in being both thorough and sparkling...