Word: flashings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...settled into the job and grown more comfortable with it. His eyes flash with pleased excitement when he scampers up onstage at the University of Missouri at St. Louis and the band thumps out chorus after chorus of Hail to the Chief, which he once banned as too imperial but reinstated when he realized the importance of such symbolism. As he talks about the serious challenges facing America, he also makes a salesman's pitch. "The next time you get ready to change cars and buy a new model, give those new American cars and those American automobile workers...
Lynch's deliberate technique works most effectively in the way he familiarizes the audience with the Elephant Man's deformities. Merrick is seen little by little, first in silhouette, then behind a screen, later in a quick, startling flash. When the camera finally focuses on the young man's face in full light and close-up, the shot does not provoke laughter or a horrified gasp. Of course, the remarkable make-up by Wally Schneiderman helps greatly...
...Guild. It was a time of choosing up sides in Hollywood, of violent labor disputes and the bitter controversy about blacklisting. Reagan recalled it recently in one of those rambling monologues that sometimes seem to reveal more than he realizes. It produced a rarity in his usual discourse: a flash of real emotion in the form of raw anger...
...most vivid memory," Rodriguez recalls--and his large, brown eyes flash--"is the concentration camp they brought us to for 72 hours before we got on the boat--thousands of people sleeping on rocks with no food. We were beaten and mistreated by police and police dogs...
Destiny took a holiday that Thursday night. With the absolute clarity that comes from television lights and the pressure that comes from the yearnings of millions, (pressure to create diamonds!), Ali saw that he was going to lose. So, like Vinnie Curto, the East Boston flash, so many years ago, he just didn't show up. Oh, his body was there, and enough will to throw maybe two dozen punches over the space of ten rounds. But in every important way, he was a million light years from home...