Word: flicker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drove the 49ers to the 13 only to miss an unattended receiver in the end zone. "It kind of shook me up a bit," he would say later, "because there it was-he was open. How many times is it going to be there for you?" Even that flicker of concern did not show, not to the crowd, not to his teammates. Montana sent Lenvil Elliott around left end to the six. Time out. Third and three, with 58 sec. on the clock...
From there, Montana led the 49ers on a 68-yard drive to the game's first score. After completing five of six passes on the 11-play march, which included a flea flicker to tight end Charle Young, Montana drove over from the one with nine minutes gone in the first period...
...game's changing momentum, however, sufficed to keep interest high during the second half. On their first possession the Bengals put together an impressive 83-yard drive, which included a flea flicker of their own. Anderson scored on a six-yard run on a boot-leg play to cut the lead...
...have a gifted all-around offense: our longest run is 23 yards on the last play of a half. We have to be resourceful and fully dimensional." And what does fully dimensional mean? "There is basic, rock-solid, block-and-tackle football. Then there is crazy, circus-play, flea-flicker football. We fit somewhere in between...
...should have been a silent movie. Facts and faces flicker through E.L. Doctorow's novel with the speed and power of jerky images from a newsreel of the American soul circa 1910. Archetypes are intercut with tintypes; a panorama of mass or class dissolves into a closeup of an agitated bourgeois mind; fable is superimposed on history. And they all run like hell to the D.W. Griffith finish line. Long shot: Harry Houdini performs thrilling escapes, restaging his own birth trauma for a country just then emerging from isolationism into imperialism. Closeup: Emma Goldman, anarchist spellbinder, woos Evelyn Nesbit...