Word: flashings
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...other day who had no sense of humor. None. The chip was missing, as in an alien who cannot weep or fall in love. I tried to banter with him. He flat-lined. His face stared back in blank, serene incomprehension. For an instant I had a flash of Henny Youngman trying to get a laugh out of Eleanor Roosevelt...
...flash in which Henny Youngman turned into Franklin Roosevelt...
Ehud Barak can't make peace if he's not in power, but he can't stay in power if he continues to make peace. That basic dilemma explains the Israeli prime minister's decision over the weekend to flash-freeze the process and even moot plans to fence off the Palestinians into Israel's own idea of what their mini-state ought to look like. The suggestion may have prompted Yasser Arafat to tell the media that Barak could "go to hell," but the Israeli leader's reconciliation efforts right now are directed not at the Palestinians...
...title track, which kicks off the album, sounds like greased lightning with legs; imagine a guitar equivalent of Blues Traveler harpist John Popper, and you're halfway there. But it's not mere flash; the songs hold up on their own even as they provide showcases for the guitarist's highly evolved style. The lyrics reveal Landreth's deep preoccupation with his Louisiana heritage, and most of the songs revolve around a kind of Cajun mythology, with an occasionally felicitous turn of phrase like "The U.S.S. Zydecoldsmobile"; musically, Landreth filters the zydeco and Crescent City traditions through a more modern...
Arafat finally agreed. Back in the conference room, he and Albright slumped into chairs. Barak and CIA Director George Tenet were there waiting. Tenet passed around spy-satellite photos from the areas with some of the worst fighting and showed how both sides could retreat from the flash points...