Word: flicker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THERE ARE A FEW SCENES in which the lines don't detract from the emotions the actors portray. As they flicker by. Thomas succeeds in delineating his pain. When he gets out of a shower, shivering and wet. he reaches out to an empty towel rack and he calls out "Mom, I need a towel" It is the fleeting moments like this that give the film its most potent and forceful moments. Unfortunately Schatzberg's attempt to create a collage of scenes in which Andrew and his father struggle with their loss is frequently uneven and ultimately unsatisfying...
That fact brought to a close the season that had apparently ended with the final buzzer in Harvard's 88-77 win over Columbia more than a week ago. But a campaign led by Harvard Coach Frank McLaughlin to earn his squad its first-ever NIT bid left a flicker of hope in Cambridge that a season reprieve...
...residents of Abidjan, the Ivory Coast's modern capital, the crisis seemed to evolve with the inevitability of a malevolent natural force. Two months ago, the electricity in shops and office buildings began to flicker and die for an hour or so at lunchtime. Gradually, larger areas of the city went dark; air conditioners, refrigerators and TV sets winked off. Now the entire city, as well as outlying coastal areas, is afflicted by crippling power outages...
...planned to impose on the South. As usual, the U.S. suffers for being an open society: there is almost no film or discussion of Soviet military activity, and the footage supplied by Hanoi often seems sanitized; while most of the Americans who are interviewed are thoughtful, there is no flicker of self-criticism among the people interviewed in today's Viet...
...moist and rich, as if someone had enclosed a creek bottom. Late summer motes settle gently on the esoteric acquisitions of the once famous George Ade. Here a Grecian urn, there a Waterford crystal punch bowl that, when flicked crisply with a fingernail, keeps ringing clearly long after the flicker has left the room...