Word: flickered
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...Quinn as the stepfather carries the burden of this suspense expertly, equally convincing in all his character's twisted levels of reality. His abrupt facial shifts from genial daddy to iron-jawed psycho are scary as hell--the expressions of contained violence, forced cheer, and wistful longing that flicker through this dude's eyes would shame many a Max Factor model. This guy really wants a happy family, and you see it in his face as he pitifully watches happy neighbors prancing around their lawns. Gotta love his end, it's just his means that send Oedipal chills...
Three minutes earlier, Tony Eason had thrown his second TD pass to Stanley Morgan for a 17-13 Patriots' lead. That score came on a wellexecuted flea-flicker, with fullback Mosi Tatupu taking a handoff and passing backward to Eason, who then found Morgan 45 yards downfield...
Three minutes later, however, the Patriots wrested the lead again. New England had little success running the ball, but Craig James got the drive started with a 17-yd. run, and the flea-flicker capped the 78-yd. march with 2:50 left in the third period...
...three film versions, may have been wrongheaded: a crackling revival at Manhattan's Lincoln Center persuasively makes the case that The Front Page is less a lark and more a socially inflamed piece of press criticism. In this vision, the reprehensible reporters peddle human interest without feeling the least flicker of humanity. They have lost, or abandoned, all spirit of reform...
...been a strange sight for passing cars: the stocky, owl-like Limey tourist with the moon glasses pointing his camera at the sky and clicking away), is rich in a quite painterly way, while the copious, overlapping details from which the ground, highway and signs are recomposed seem to flicker in and out of focus, compelling attention by breaking the illusions one expects in photography. Such works are so much more ambitious, intricate and convincing than the general run of Hockney's recent paintings -- banal pastiches of Picasso, mostly -- that one's pleasure in looking at them is tinged with...