Word: flicker
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...that's enough for those of us in Room 41. Our thoughts are full of the beauty of Beckham, and the creamy blue light bathing his torso. His golden shoulder may nod to the classical statues of the gods, but we mortal women gaze, moonfaced, at the soft flicker of his eyelashes. He licks his lips and scrabbles at the crucifix around his neck, he moves his hand and the row of bands and bracelets around his wrist shuffle like waiting footmen - nothing happens, but we are bewitched. What is it about this man, with his metrosexual style...
After picking up a Master’s degree from Columbia, Slavitt moved into the professional world. In 1958, he was hired as a film critic for Newsweek—or, as he describes it, a “flicker picker...
...sang through smiles: with expressive eyes, dancing eyebrows, palpitating breast, and alive fingers that would rub together and flicker like a dancer’s digits ornamenting the end of an extended arm suspended in reach. That is to say, Cecilia Bartoli, the internationally acclaimed mezzo-soprano, flirted and seduced the audience at Symphony Hall last Friday night. As part of the FleetBoston Celebrity Series, Bartoli appeared with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment—with whom she performs and works regularly—including their most recent collaboration on her new “Salieri Album...
Though the once blazing women’s hockey rivalry between No. 3 Harvard and No. 10 Brown has been little more than a flicker in recent meetings, the Crimson has more than enough incentive to take two from the Bears in back-to-back games this weekend...
...face (an experience he suffered on the first day of his campaign, when he said he would have voted for the Iraq-war resolution--an inconvenient admission for an antiwar candidate). But after several months lost in the political wilderness, the Clark campaign is beginning to show a wispy flicker of life...