Word: flickerer
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...month old. Proprietor Eldon Taylor, 25, insists that The Infinite Mind is "really just a toy shop for teen-agers," but he provides the ideal station from which to start a trip. Light boxes around the walls blink and fade and oscillate, floodlights of red, blue, yellow and green flicker on a paisley-patterned tapestry while the sounds of the Beatles or Ravi Shankar boom from strategically located loudspeakers...
...beasts from the tech stylist's first one-man show at the Stable Gallery. "For the artist to ignore the possibilities of technology would be utter folly," says Seawright, and he seems to have ignored few. His Watcher took 6½ months to produce; its tiny lights flicker in programmed sequences, photocell-tipped antennas bob about like tentacles, seeking the lights, and a speaker tweets and squeals to the pulsing of the circuitry...
...Republican Mayor John Lindsay and Democratic Senator Robert Kennedy chatted together last week in front of New York City's Gracie Mansion, the mayor's official residence, it took only a flicker of fantasy to imagine that they were standing in the White House portico, circa 1972. It was almost a case of take-your-pick. Dressed alike in dark suits and rep ties-only the breastpocket handkerchief set Harvardman Kennedy apart from Yaleman Lindsay-both exuded all the youth, intelligence and patrician good looks a voter could hope for. Though mere commoners in their respective parties...
...Lights flicker from the OppOsite lOft; In this-room the hEatpipes Just oOugh; The cOuntry-music stAtion plays sOft But there's nOthing, rEally nOthing tO tUrn Off, Just Louise--and her lOver--sO Entwined And these visions--of JohAnna--that cOn--quer mY mind...
Summing up, Sir Elwyn pointed to the defendants' detached, unemotional behavior. "Are you ever likely to forget how the two accused gave their evidence?" he asked. "Did you see the slightest flicker of emotion when even the most harrowing details were being discussed?" The all-male jury deliberated two hours and 22 minutes before returning with verdicts that demanded the maximum sentence. Britain's historical maximum penalty-death by hanging -had been abolished by Parliament during the time Brady and Myra Hindley were in prison awaiting trial...