Word: flicker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rations when a Viet Cong .50-cal. machine gun opened fire. Then, from all four sides and above, more machine guns, grenade launchers and snipers' rifles poured lead into the detachment, felling two G.I.s instantly. From a thicket where he had taken cover, Owen saw a flicker in the dense jungle opposite. "Then it moved again," he recalls. "I fired six shots. No more movement...
...phenomenon of nature is too small to escape the curiosity of modern science, not even the twinkle of distant little stars. Astronomers call it scintillation. But putting a name to the faint flicker has hardly served to explain...
...sponge rubber. Around him are ashtrays half-filled with cigarettes left by the daytime rock 'n' roll D.J.s. Staring at him is the control panel held together with electrical tape. On the scarred horseshoe table sits a six-line beige telephone, equipped with six lights that will flicker when the telephone calls come...
Lastly, Mr. Flicker had bad taste to choose corny detective and horror movies for the majority of his spoofs. Corn piled atop corn is hardly more tolerable, as The Troublemaker so successfully demonstrates. Jack's neurotic girlfriend sums it up best when she shows him around her zany apartment, a veritable junkyard of art, and explains to him: "I know it's eclectic, but I tried not to repress anything...
...gave him a unique outlook. He once did a 58-ft. by 20-ft. portrait of Actress Joanne Woodward for a Broadway signboard, and his view of women and the world has been Brobdingnagian ever since. Says Rosenquist of his work: "I'm interested in contemporary vision-the flicker of chrome, reflections, rapid associations, quick flashes of light. Bing-bang! Bing-bang! I don't do anecdotes; I accumulate experiences." F-111 is thus his own superbillboard illustration of modern industrial culture...