Word: flicker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ever to hit the National Football League. Pretty awesome." On a fourth down off-tackle play everyone in the Rose Bowl expected, Riggins crashed the line and ran 43 yds. for the telling touchdown. Earlier there were Washington tricks, the flanker reverse Richard Nixon used to recommend, the flea flicker Ronald Reagan so admires. But, as Shula said, "the old-fashioned stuff is what did us in: the pounding." He took it pretty well...
...into a still more ecstatic surge and sweep, to fling oneself forward, and for a moment or so keep everything still, frozen, in the hollow of one's hand, and then to set them all singing and soaring in one final sweep, with the cymbals clashing at every flicker of one's eyelid, to sound the grand Amen...
...abrupt revelation that Nathan is a schizophrenic--crucial to the plot--does not satisfactorily account for Kline's flamboyant magnetism, that magnetism nevertheless is riveting. Kline apes MacNicol's Southern accent and frolics through extravagant pranks and outings while Streep watches him in mute, almost abject admiration: not a flicker of an eyelid spoils the effect...
...scene opens in pitch darkness, except for the flicker of some electronic indicator and the calm cobalt face of the monitor. When time begins moving, it is with a queer jerky stylization, folding in on itself. Beckett's characters on paper are so surrealistic, so utterly removed from normal constraints or modes of reference, that it's an initial shock to see one walking around. The fifty-is Gullett, white hair frizzed, eyes bugged out, toddles and grumbles like a Monty Python animated character, and it's a long while before he talks...
...brave beginning, and one that surprised U.S. analysts by its strength, but despite the evident similarity to the events of 1980, history did not repeat itself in Gdansk last week. General Wojciech Jaruzelski, head of the military regime, made it clear from the first flicker of protest that his government would not give an inch...