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...couple of wowzers, including one that looked as if the mother ship from Close Encounters of the Third Kind had made a forced landing on her noggin. Under such circumstances, photos sometimes catch fleeting moments when a kind of uncertainty, even a suggestion of strain, seems to flicker across her face. Royals do have a peculiar knack for looking out of it, and when Charles drove off from Ascot in his dark blue Aston Martin with Diana at his side, both had the slightly dazed look of a couple who had just scored big on Let's Make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magic in the Daylight | 8/3/1981 | See Source »

...week's end mediation efforts and formal talks were still going on, and hope for some breakthrough continued to flicker. But the outlook was grim. Observed Poland Expert Adam Bromke, a political science professor at Ontario's McMaster University: "The whole thing has the makings of a Greek tragedy. All the actors know they are heading for disaster. But they appear to be under a spell they cannot break...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland: Back to the Precipice | 4/6/1981 | See Source »

...universe, saw the force that drove the furnace of the stars, and then he brought that force to earth. After four years of refining, J. Robert Oppenheimer unleashed a force that exploded with a brilliance and brutality never before seen on this planet. His genius, that inquisitive flicker in his eyes, found expression in an explosion that could be seen from the rest of the planets in the solar system...

Author: By Terrence P. Hanrahan, | Title: Oppenheimer at Ground Zero | 3/16/1981 | See Source »

...into an agenda for the '80s. Americans committed to social justice mow face the future leaderless, devoid of new ideas and without a working-class base of support. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, a man conspicuous in his absense from Kuttner's book is fond of saying, "the flame may flicker, but the danger dream will never die." Yet the flame is in danger without the fuel of new ideas and vision. Kuttner begins to tell us where we were, but we must know soon where we should...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Render Unto Jarvis... | 2/24/1981 | See Source »

...underutilized throughout. Buckley never got Cuccia the ball in the first half, even though he was single covered (and not very well at that). And then Harvard needed the big play later on, the fleet former quarterback was not summoned for a reverse or flea-flicker. Buckley also stopped throwing to his backs in the second half, something he had done successfully all season long...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Multiflop | 11/24/1980 | See Source »

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