Word: flashings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...come upon the crash scene while driving across town. Nikola Arsov of Sipa, another agency, says he also came upon the accident scene by chance after following the decoy cars sent out by the hotel. "I took five or six photos, but I forgot to turn on the flash and they didn't come out," he says. The photographers who admit to chasing the car claim they were hundreds of yards behind when it crashed...
Still, I remember feeling violated at the time and as powerless as a minnow in a flash flood. Someone was invading my private space--my family's private space--and there was nothing I or the authorities could do. It was as close to a technological epiphany as I have ever been. And as I watched my personal digital hell unfold, it struck me that our privacy--mine and yours--has already disappeared, not in one Big Brotherly blitzkrieg but in Little Brotherly moments...
...historian Barbara Dafoe Whitehead published an essay in the Atlantic Monthly titled "Dan Quayle Was Right." Citing studies that tracked the development of children raised by single parents, she identified broken families as Public Enemy No. 1, responsible for a generation of sad and angry, underachieving youngsters. In a flash, Whitehead's point of view won converts no less influential--and liberal--than Donna Shalala and Hillary Clinton, who in her book It Takes a Village wrote of feeling "ambivalent about no-fault divorce when children are involved...
Writers, spurred by Coe, paid little attention to TV's restrictions. They'd have characters flash back from old age to youth and back again (requiring split-second makeup applications) or dream up odd location scenes. Coe's own script, This Time Next Year, called for the ghost of Ulysses S. Grant to materialize at Grant's Tomb. The actor playing Grant was to jump into an NBC limo and get uptown in time for the "remote." But there was no limo. So the actor hailed a cab and, in full Grant regalia, ordered, "Take me to Grant's Tomb...
Actors are drawn to certain kinds of roles. Meryl Streep likes a part with an accent. Tom Cruise likes a role that calls for him to flash his grin. And as his new movie, Conspiracy Theory, once again confirms, Mel Gibson likes a movie in which he's tortured...