Word: flashing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time, Pahopin had hopes that Marion Young, a housewife with an English accent, would become the Parker Towers version of Rona Barrett -and he initially introduced her as such. But Marion would have none of it. Instead, she specializes in engagement announcements, weddings and traveling tenants. A recent flash: "Welcome home, Flora Mae Birge, from your Caribbean cruise. Too bad you couldn't take along your poodle to enjoy it with you." Marion explains that her husband objected to the Rona Barrett billing. Besides, she says, "I really didn't want to gossip and spread grief...
...This is the story of a city, a portrait of Rome," Fellini's voice instructs as the credits flash by, "a mixture of strange, contradictory images." If only it were. There are two sequences that are virtuoso feats even by Fellini's elaborate standards: a weird, bloody and cacophonous entrance into a rainy nighttime Rome along a crowded highway, and a boisterous, affectionate re-creation of a night in a music hall during World War II, the audience far more vigorous and creative than the amateur talent passing in review. Fellini is at his best here, which makes...
...Lampoon announced the parody's release at a Monday press conference amid popping flash bulbs and television coverage...
...problem of terrorism, as one result of the letters, dominated the opening session of the 27th United Nations General Assembly last week. Security was so tight at the U.N.'s Manhattan headquarters that delegates from the 132 member nations had to flash passes with photographs to enter the assembly hall. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim introduced a resolution calling for a halt in "terrorism and other forms of violence which endanger or take innocent human lives." Considerably qualified and softened to placate Arab na tions, the resolution was shunted to the General Assembly's legal committee for further study...
...turn, repel negative ions in the earth below, leaving the ground with a positive charge. When the electrical potential, or voltage, between cloud and earth becomes great enough, a stream of ionized particles will suddenly burst down from the cloud to equalize that potential, becoming visible as a flash of lightning...