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...thoughful central figure--an "honorable man" caught between considered morality and bold, heroic action. James Finnegan consistently understates Brutus's tension and growing disillusion at the havoc his revolutionary act has brought. Only an occasional flush, as he runs his fingers through thick curly hair or lets a nerve flicker in the corner of his mouth, reveals the turmoil written into the character...
...surpassed the previous alltime leader, the 1980 "Who Shot J.R.?" episode of Dallas. With 30-second commercials selling for as much as $450,000, the highest price in history, the program earned CBS some $14 million. M*A*S*H won't fade away either; old shows will flicker on in syndicated reruns on 190 television stations...
...ever to hit the National Football League. Pretty awesome." On a fourth down off-tackle play everyone in the Rose Bowl expected, Riggins crashed the line and ran 43 yds. for the telling touchdown. Earlier there were Washington tricks, the flanker reverse Richard Nixon used to recommend, the flea flicker Ronald Reagan so admires. But, as Shula said, "the old-fashioned stuff is what did us in: the pounding." He took it pretty well...
...18th century the Popes began to lose their enthusiasm for live art, and the men who transformed painting in the 19th century-Delacroix, Courbet, Manet, Cezanne-excited not a flicker of interest in the Vatican. In the 20th century papal patronage guttered out, except for a few ornamental mediocrities like Giacomo Manzii's door for St. Peter's. Modern Popes disliked modern art because they associated it with liberalism. Eventually the problem vanished: John Paul II would learn to use television as his predecessors had used fresco...
...into a still more ecstatic surge and sweep, to fling oneself forward, and for a moment or so keep everything still, frozen, in the hollow of one's hand, and then to set them all singing and soaring in one final sweep, with the cymbals clashing at every flicker of one's eyelid, to sound the grand Amen...