Word: flickerer
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Routinely, the state-run TV network in Ethiopia puts on a prime-time horror show intended-quite literally-to terrify the nation's 28 million inhabitants. Shots of racked bodies of political prisoners tortured to death, corpses of dissidents shot down by mobs of armed vigilantes-they all flicker across the screen as evidence of the ruthless determination of what may be one of the most brutal and arbitrary regimes in power today...
...backhand drive by George Hughes found its way past Red goalie Steve Napier with just over five minutes remaining in the second, cutting the Cornell lead to 5-2. Five minutes into the third, Crimson defenseman Bob Leckie drilled home a slap shot from the point, and a flicker of hope passed through the close-to-capacity crowd...
...That flicker became a full-fledged fire 81 seconds later, when Murray Dea picked up a loose puck for the shorthanded Crimson (Hughes was in the box for hooking) and blistered a slapper past Napier from 20 feet out to make it 5-4. Reverting to its skating form of two nights ago, Harvard was making a game...
...thick, solitary splendor of the movie studio, Monroe Stahr weaves dreams. He watches images flicker by in the screening room, demands improvement. Amendments, modifications, excisions-all flow in the sharp, regular rhythm of a master musician keeping time by snapping his fingers. "The last scene was too gory-cut out one roll of the table," or, "Reshoot the whole scene." His taste is peerless, but it would have to be. The production chief of a major studio like MGM in the early '30s, Stahr holds absolute authority...
...flicker of a TV set as the dial is clicked: rocket, eagle, Kennedy, dancer, oranges, box, all registered with the peacock-hued, aniline-sharp intensity of electronic color. The subject was glut...