Word: flicker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...phrase endures, but it can only flicker like a weak flame in the glare of continued social injustice...
...curious, often unruly marriage between politics and television, there are certain charged moments that flicker in the national memory. Richard Nixon tense and sweaty debating an unruffled John Kennedy. Ed Muskie's frozen tears in the snows of New Hampshire. Ted Kennedy groping for meaning and a verb in an interview with Roger Mudd. Ronald Reagan squaring his jaw and asserting, "I'm paying for this microphone, Mr. Green!" Who cares that the man's name was actually Breen? It was great television...
Appreciate the coloristic luster of the blue against the white. Stare at your fellow aesthetes through the magical icy wall. See how they waver and flicker and are gone. Appreciate the mystical unity you are achieving with the ice, the way your feet appear to have frozen to the ground...
...batteries, a microprocessor tells the doll to turn itself off once the child falls asleep and stops squeezing the toy. The bedtime companion comes in two forms -- a baby bear or a baby human -- each with bright eyes that double as a night- light and little electric lips that flicker as it speaks...
...jaded oculii were roaming carelessly, just the other day, through a salt-stained numero of the Daily when they happened to rest on Higginson Snotbottom's numinously scriptatory editorial effusion, "Why Daily Pensters Don't Wear Clothes." I fear they rested but a moment, a soi-disant hermeneutic flicker in my day, since at the time I was on the ship-to-shore phone, advising my good friend Bob Bork on possible mano-a-mano means of unmanning (were this necessary) the mewling catamites of the Left. Simultaneously I was correcting National Review galleys, sipping a very adequate Chateau Lafitte...