Word: flashings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...polls have allayed those concerns. Labour's standing has been boosted by Brown's competent handling of terror attacks in London and Glasgow and an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease. The Prime Minister's stolidity, perceived only a few months ago as weakness, now reads like strength. "Not flash, just Gordon," runs Labour's latest slogan. In his convention speech - a doggedly uninspiring hour-long sermon bracketed by emotional ovations and punctuated by endearing verbal stumbles - Brown played up to his new image. "People say I am too serious and I fight too hard and maybe that's true...
...want to put their whole life into something. I'm way past that point." He admits he occasionally stops on Seinfeld while flipping through the channels ("I watch it now, and I go, 'Oh, now I see why they liked the show'"). No, he says, dollar signs do not flash before his eyes when he sees it in syndication. "Bad fashion choices flash before my eyes." Seinfeld isn't impressed by most TV now and believes that the medium's fragmentation over the networks and the sprawling cable universe has made it too difficult to get together great writing staffs...
...next course on making the fine distinction between a Damien Hirst and a flash in the pan coincides with the Frieze Art Fair in London's Regent's Park (Oct. 11-13), where Sotheby's Institute will offer special guidance on Indian art and the Young British Artists; there's a parallel course for Russian speakers...
...tilts aren’t meaningless, and pride is high stakes. The emotional toll on the Crimson of the last-minute loss at Holy Cross in the season opener—the undefeated season, the perfection of ’01 and ’04, gone in the flash of a Dominic Randolph deep ball—is impossible to predict. It’s a sensation that no one on the team has felt before in his collegiate career, having a midseason winning percentage of .000. 10-0 is off the table. But 7-3 and an Ancient...
...other challengers in the race, newcomers Gail L. Wiggins, Stefan Malner, and Nancy Tauber, steered away from the debate’s flash points and instead focused on their own experiences...