Word: flashings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...close, McCartney can flash his ever ready charm at will. One minute he's open and sincere; the next he's closed, in automatic public relations mode. He's a clever lad, practical in business matters yet irreverent at heart. He's eager to put you at ease, but he gets miffed if you pry too closely. Just a few friends ever see the McCartney house, set in the forest in Sussex. His & Scottish estate is reachable only by foot across a bog or by four-wheel drive. Decades of Beatlemania haven't dehumanized him, but he has learned...
...Prime Minister is Somboon Rahong, a member of parliament but also a former air force officer. Opposition politicians said he was simply fronting for the supreme commander, Air Chief Marshal Kaset Rojananil, and therefore was unacceptable. They warned that his appointment would set off more street demonstrations. Another potential flash point is the last-minute amnesty Suchinda handed himself and his military cronies, a step many Thais believe is illegal...
Clark embodies the ultimate Harvard student-athlete. Dedicated, giving, inspiring and unassuming are just a few of the ways teammates and coaches describe her. She quietly and consistently gets the job done with a minimum of flash or fuss...
...taking place now is good politics for either a two-man or a three-man race. As a Bush official put it last week, "The question is, Are we fleet enough, are we agile enough to drop back into a two-man strategy if Perot proves to be a flash in the pan?" In that event, the White House will go to the party that does the best job of lurching back toward the center...
Great idea, middling execution. The group is composed entirely of aspiring artistes: a writer, a rap singer, a dancer, a model and so forth (not a 9-to-5 drudge in the house). The half-hour episodes are assembled with quick-cutting flash by producers Mary Ellis Bunim and Jon Murray. Few scenes last longer than a minute, the sound track vibrates with rock music, and the camera is always moving or tilted rakishly. MTV has apparently outlawed the 90 degrees angle...