Word: flashing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...small changes that are big for private lives." She believes that "the liberation of women can and will occur, it's an irreversible process... When I was floundering around in the fifties, not knowing who I was or why, Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex came like a flash of recognition. Even then, though, I didn't quite make the connection between what she was writing about and myself. I was just then becoming politically conscious, and it was years before I made the connection between women and politics, myself and the world...
...skeletal mob of concentration-camp prisoners shuffle wearily across the stage. As the orchestra surges to the brass-driven climax of the adagio from Mahler's unfinished Tenth Symphony, naked fluorescent lights flash down from the ceiling, garishly illuminating the entire theater. Slowly the prisoners turn away from the audience toward a distant, fiery orange backdrop.Slowly they doff the blankets that cover t heir bodies; on their backs are stenciled stark black numerals...
Unfortunately, however, John Hopkins' script almost immediately starts dropping broad hints on this matter too. Flash cuts and dialogue indicate Connery cannot purge his mind of the dirty pictures left there by previous investigations of violent crimes. They are pulling him toward a psychopathy as profound as any he has ever investigated, and the beating of Bannen is a demonstration that mental illness can be infectious. It is also a working out anew of the cliche that the difference between the police mentality and the criminal mind is small and easily blurred...
...story was now being dramatized under the klieg lights of the crowded Senate Caucus Room and thrust into the living rooms of America. Figuratively, the testimony represented at least half a dozen sticks of dynamite that could blow the scandal skyhigh. The fuses were lit, and the first reached flash point as Convicted Wiretapper James W. McCord Jr. directly accused Richard Nixon of participating in attempts to conceal the involvement of his closest political associates in the sordid and still-spreading affair...
...newcomer to the pros, New York Knick Guard Dean Meminger has a veteran's grasp of what the annual free-for-all called the National Basketball Association play-offs is all about. He proved it in last week's showdown game with the Boston Celtics, when a flash fight between Knick Bill Bradley and Celtic Don Nelson threatened to erupt into a bench-clearing slugfest. Meminger, the smallest man on the floor, quickly stepped in front of Boston's Dave Cowens, the 6-ft. 9-in. center with flaming red hair and a temper to match...