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...3/4-hour movie, owned by Ted Turner since he bought the MGM film library in 1985, has become the eternal flame of popular culture. It is a safe bet that somewhere in the world, day and night, Clark Gable's Rhett Butler and Vivien Leigh's Scarlett O'Hara flicker across a screen...
Nicewarner reared her ugly head with another flicker. Yadao managed to block this one but as the ball hit the ground, half of Brown's players ran into the net and brought the ball along with them...
Karen's former immersion in mass behavior, which left her "immunized against the language of self," gives her a preternatural sensitivity to mob scenes that flicker on TV. Watching pictures of the frenzied mourners at the funeral of the Ayatullah Khomeini, she is both appalled and enraptured and wonders how people, after seeing such a spectacle, can go on living in the same old ways: "Why is nothing changed, where are the local crowds, why do we still have names and addresses and car keys?" Bill, who has made a fetish of his own individuality and remoteness from others, looks...
Still, rebellion smoldered in the hearts of the two soldiers, and it continued to flicker in more than a dozen southern cities. Also threatening Saddam's regime were simultaneous insurrections in the north, organized by Iraq's Kurds. From every indication, Saddam was preparing to avenge the transgressions mightily. "Everybody who tries to undermine security," said the Baghdad newspaper Al Thawra, "shall regret it. They will pay." But by lashing out at his own people, said Rear Admiral Mike McConnell, the Pentagon intelligence chief, Saddam "may be sowing the seeds of his own destruction...
...good reason to indulge his intrinsic indifference to such things as block grants and toxic-waste disposal. Being Commander in Chief is more glorious and important than being commander of enterprise zones. But without presidential leadership, inertia is likely to set in on the home front. Television screens flicker throughout the Federal Triangle as bureaucrats play CNN generals rather than go about the unglamorous work of governing. Reducing America's appetite for foreign oil, finding an affordable way to restore civility to cities that resemble war zones, giving the 20% of America's children who live in poverty...