Word: flickerer
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...Baltimore oriole of its name; henceforth Icterus galbula will be known by the prosaic name "northern oriole." A dozen other busted species include the European teal (to green-winged teal), Audubon's warbler and the myrtle warbler (to yellow-rumped warbler), the red-shafted, yellow-shafted and gilded flicker (to common flicker), the slate-colored junco (to dark-eyed junco) and the black-eared bushtit (to common bushtit...
...Dylan's return, illuminated by the slow flicker of thousands of matches, the old spirit seems to emerge anew. At each concert, the hush of anticipation, the buzz of uncertainty and the applause of recognition are extensions of young people again listening to his words and looking for their meaning. Arms linked together, swaying in unison, chanting in time to the psychic current, a generation's anthem- learned in adolescence, sung in protest but not finally understood until periods of adult crisis-is being sung once more...
Housed in a blue and white trailer in the middle of Times Square, a patrolman keeps his eyes on four screens for the first flicker of something going wrong. He can phone a squad car that will appear on the scene in as little as 30 seconds, or he can rush out himself to nab a thug, as Patrolman Jim Ray did in the case of Mrs. Kearns. Says Lieut. Berg: "It is as if we provide a cop at every door where the camera goes...
...INSPECTOR by Saul Steinberg. Unpaged. Viking. $10. Something less than a genius who doodles but something more than a doodler of genius, Steinberg goes on defying categories, preconceptions and occasionally-perspective. In this, his sixth book of drawings in three decades, hints of satire flicker over images of parades, masks, street corners and architecture. Is Steinberg making some point about bureaucratic conformity, say, or cultural cacophony? Perhaps. But too much interpretation spoils the fun. What interpretation is needed, anyway, of an artist who can symbolize what a dog thinks and render a woman's conversation as a series...
LONG EXPLAINS that the French set to work immediately to remake rural Vietnam. Even as resistance to the invaders continued to flicker in isolated spots, the French military expropriated by decree extensive tracts of land, which they then gave to a handful of French and Vietnamese collaborators. Peasants returning home after the resistance had ended discovered that they no longer owned their land; village leaders found that the communal lands, which had provided for the young and the sick and the poor, now belonged to outsiders. As the French widened their control over Vietnam and cleared new lands for cultivation...