Word: flashings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...U.S.S. Bonefish was a 30-year cold war veteran used for simulating Soviet submarines in naval exercises. But the war games turned deadly last week. As the Bonefish ran at periscope depth 160 miles east of Cape Canaveral, blasts erupted from one of its two battery compartments. Flash fire and toxic gases forced the 92-man crew to abandon ship. Twenty-two crewmen were hospitalized; Navy salvage workers later found the bodies of three crewmen aboard the vessel. The Navy has not yet determined the cause of the accident...
...music is Nessun dorma from Puccini's Turandot; the images are the last frenetic dreams of a dying woman. Ancient astral priests dress her for a mysterious ritual: paint on her body, diamonds on the soles of her feet, finally a branding iron pressed to her lips. A rude flash, and we see the scene of a car accident. The jewels are mortal wounds, the priests surgeons, the vision one of hope and fear for the unknown world that follows death. Visually, Russell's sequence is pitched at see above high- see. Emotionally, it takes preposterous risks and pulls them...
...pols, and he can sum them up with a brutal line or two. On Meet the Press a few weeks ago, Anchor Tom Brokaw asked if Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, the leading Democratic presidential contender, was just "too dull to be an effective nominee." Nixon was ready, dark flash from the eyes. "Let me answer that question this way. I've often said that the best politics is poetry rather than prose. Jesse Jackson is a poet. Cuomo is a poet. And Dukakis is a word processor...
Although many students lined the windows to clap and cheer, not everyone enjoyed the flash dance. At 1:29 a.m, the Harvard Police received a complaint about "nudists singing the National Anthem," one policeman said. The approaching patrol car sent the singing group running for cover. By the time the police arrived, the policeman said, there was nobody--no bare body, that is--in sight...
...lever said to resemble a dill pickle. The modern military pushes a "pickle" button. Anderson has half a heartbeat to push his. Since this isn't war, he is actually dropping a 25-lb. bowling pin with fins called a bomb dummy unit. It contains a small flash charge enabling technicians watching on video screens to pinpoint the hit or miss. Each pilot drops 28 bombs during the six-day contest. Two years ago, the top team triumphed over the runner-up by dropping a single bomb one yard closer. In theory, spring-loaded reflexes and microscopic eyes should make...