Word: flashings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When I come back the bar has morphed considerably--the kind of twenty-something banter I'm used to hearing fills the air, rising over the din of loud rock music. As I enter, a bouncer asks me to show some identification, and I flash my Harvard I.D. But he's not satisfied with that, so I fish out my New York State driver's license and hand it over to him, in the process exposing my expired, under-21 license. The guy notices the old I.D., and asks to have a peek at it as well. Finally, only after...
...good streak going at ferreting out the truth, although an arguably politically-motivated $30 million libel suit brought by Clinton aide Sidney Blumenthal against Drudge may suggest otherwise. But I remain unconvinced that Internet gossiping is any preparation for mass media stardom. If Drudge turns out to be a flash in the pan, or an unreliable reporter, look for a cultural backlash against the same Internet that nurtured his media dreams...
...Toyota and a Honda have nosed up to an invisible starting line. A fat kid in a ball cap stands between them and raises his arms, then drops them. Engines scream and rubber burns. Speeds approach 100 m.p.h., and 1,320 ft. later, the Toyota's rear lights flash, signaling the winner...
Indeed, contrary to the widespread impression--and all those jokes about El No-Show--the El Nino of 1997-98 never really faltered. When you put it all together--forest fires in Indonesia, typhoons in Japan, torrential rains in East Africa, unusually powerful hurricanes in the Pacific, flash floods in Peru and Ecuador, freak snowstorms in Mexico--this El Nino has already unleashed more than its share of epic mayhem. But precisely because its reach is so long and its effects so broadly distributed around the globe, it has been difficult for most people to appreciate the full force...
...authorities at the scene allowed patrons to reenter the Galleria. Stores resumed business, and Boogie Nights began to flash upon the screen...