Word: flashing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...murdered girl into a trash can. Though the view is only in silhouette, Bone has enough of a sense of the man to gasp "It's him!" when later he sees a newspaper photo of Tycoon J.J. Wolfe, a cornpone millionaire from the Ozarks. Such a flash of recognition would, of course, never persuade any court of Wolfe's guilt. But Bone's pal Cutter is convinced-perhaps because he associates the Wolfe type with those who sent him to Viet Nam. He devises a reckless plan to blackmail the millionaire. Bone objects that "extortion...
Died. Louis G. Cowan, 66, former president of CBS-TV and oft-called "father of the quiz show"; and his wife Pauline Cowan, 63; following a flash fire in their apartment; in Manhattan. Cowan created radio's Quiz Kids in 1940 and television's phenomenally popular $64,000 Question in 1955. He resigned from CBS in 1959 and, among other things, went on to found Chilmark Press, book publishers, and become a professor at the Columbia School of Journalism...
...people stood and stared; a woman sat on the ground with her head in her hands; a policeman tried to keep things moving. The tow truck creaked as it dragged the two cars out of each other's steel embrace, but the people made no sound. An insistent flash from the policeman's cruiser froze the image in blue once every second...
Barry Manilow, recently discharged from the Red Line, will be in concert with Lady Flash at 8 p.m. at the Music Hall the same night. If you time it right, you can go to all three, and be back in your pitiful Mather House cubicle in time to retch...
Vietnam itself is sketched sparingly, a vivid and ugly flash of memory, yet it dominates all of Kovic's thoughts and emotions, like the residual traces of a nightmare. It is the point of reference around which all else in the book revolves. His life does not seem so much to progress linearly, as centrifugally, with the Vietnam experience in the center, prefigured by his patriotic upbringing and predestining his whole future...