Word: flashings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there, middle-aged grouches! Bored by the youthquake? Not charmed by the teen flicks that every Cinema Half-a-Dozen seems to have five of? Think that children, including child actors, should be flash-frozen at twelve and thawed out again at 20? Well, help is on the way. Time's winged chariot is rumbling through the shopping mall. Maturity lurks; in a couple of years not one of the kids in The Breakfast Club will be young enough to impersonate a high schooler. Creeping adulthood may require more time to overtake the young male teen-flick actors who, with...
...bathroom, handing his wife, who was standing in the center of the room, two bottles of gasoline wired to a battery and manual trigger. When her hand apparently slipped on the trigger, she set off the crude bomb. The blast killed her instantly. It seared young faces with flash burns and ignited clothes. Reeling teachers shoved children through the blown-out windows onto the grass outside, where they lay screaming and shivering with shock as their parents fought through police lines to reach them. Some 70 people were later hospitalized; at least one child had burns over...
...Correspondents Dean Fischer and Roland Flamini, awakened by the first percussive blasts around 2 a.m., leaned far out their hotel windows to watch the spectacle. "I had awakened into a nightmare," says Fischer, who witnessed the aerial fireworks to the north, over Tripoli harbor. "When I saw the first flash of an exploding bomb, I knew it was for real," says Flamini, whose room faced south, toward Gaddafi's headquarters. Within minutes, TV correspondents in Tripoli were reporting live via telephone to the three anchormen of the nightly newscasts. A nation eavesdropped on telephone conversations between New York City...
This story, like many others in the genre, begins because someone's curiosity has screwed up the natural order of things. In case we are not familiar with that order, four paragraphs flash across the screen a la Star Wars and inform us that the universe is a balance between GOOD and EVIL, two constituent parties which hold each other in check. Anything which musses up this cosmic tidiness must therefore be swept under the divine carpet before the universe is destroyed...
...analyze ever more rigorously. Veteran Business Journalist Roy Rowan, however, has some refreshingly different advice. In The Intuitive Manager (Little, Brown; $15.95), Rowan, a longtime correspondent for LIFE and TIME and for the past eight years a FORTUNE editor, celebrates what he calls the Eureka factor, the sudden, illuminating flash of judgment that actually guides many business leaders...