Word: flashing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...19th century poet. The music he favors is gentle too. Playing Mendelssohn or Chopin, he closes his eyes, lifts his face toward the ceiling, and effortlessly-sometimes while smiling whimsically-spins out a bright melody. Yet later on in a program, he can also hammer out Bartok with enough flash and thunder to rival anyone's musical fireworks...
...door, waits and buzzes again. Finally the door opens and he strides in and over to a small room where fancily dressed people are sipping cocktails. He spots Helen Gilbert (chairman of the Radcliffe Board of Overseers) whom he is supposed to photograph, and moves away to attach his flash to his camera. He thought Gilbert would be alone, waiting...
...sports landscape like mushrooms in a glen. It is basically the same looming, irregularly laid-out structure whose vast inner space Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle roamed heroically. Only it is clean, shiny and for the first time comfortable. The "Telescreen" on the scoreboard that was to flash messages like "Charge!" to the crowd was not working, and some box-seat spectators complained that their view of home plate was blocked by the dugout roof. But the ugly poles that screened the vision of generations of fans have been removed, and the seats are now wide enough...
...starts to describe an ellipse. "Then you have torpedoes." He turns his spaceship, fires an arrow-shaped blip and the other ship disappears. Space War has an infinity of variations. "There is always the final escape--you can send yourself into Hyperspace." Arny's ship disappears in a flash of light. "But you don't know if you'll come back", he adds. "And if you do, it'll be in a totally random spot." Space War's cosmic overtones of that other world are only less intriguing than the mechanics of the game itself...
...sprints and middle distances proved once again to be the squad's strong suit, and were the scene of some outstanding individual performances. Junior Todd Hooks donned his Flash Gordon costume and cruised over the cinders to easy victories...