Word: flickerer
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...with the speed of light: they have theorized about galaxies with negative mass, or tight clusters of extra-large stars that detonate like supernovae when a shock wave passes through them. But none of these ideas has won acceptance, and none has begun to explain the fact that quasars flicker strangely, varying in brilliance as much as 10% a month...
Quarterback John McCluskey was running the Harvard offense. McCluskey, too, had spent much of the season on the bench, slowed by a painful hamstring pull. He had also been forced to watch the Crimson attack flicker and die, as the team was shut out by Dartmouth and Princeton...
Yovicsin couldn't keep a smile off his face during the post-game press conference. But when Pont observed that Harvard's entire backfield would return next year, "and that scares the hell out of me," Yovvy managed the barest flicker of a frown...
...less daring can be wholly self-righteous about either his sins or his suffering. And sometimes there is a sense that he was resigned to both. In his apologia, he wrote: "There are no more solutions by argument. . . . There are only martyrdoms, which are never solutions but pyres, whose flicker is addressed, not primarily to the present, but to a posterity that has not yet cohered out of chaos and old night...
...made viewers physically sick. She generally lets craftsmen execute her designs, has a standoffishness and coolth matched by her countryman, Steele. "These pictures are not necessarily meant to be looked at," says Steele. Another Englishman is Cambridge-educated Michael Kidner (below), at 46 one of the oldest of the flicker boys. Years ago he bashed away at abstract expressionism, but, says he, "never convinced myself that the gesture I was making had much significance." Then he learned that he could make people see colors that, in fact, he did not paint. "I use optics," says he, "as a means...