Word: flickering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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EXETER: A crime picture which is sometimes spoiled by psychological pre- tensions, PLEIN SOLEIL (Purple Noon) is still the best French supense flicker in some time. It moves quickly through the story of an attempted perfect crime. Spectacular color shots of the Adriatic and Marie de la Foret. Evenings...
...world like a dejected pitcher who had just been shelled out of a crucial game. Only when his teammates swarmed about to pat his back and the Independence Day crowd of 74,246 at Yankee Stadium* cut loose with a tumultuous roar did a faint grin flicker across the lips of Edward ("Whitey") Ford, the New York Yankees' crafty southpaw pitcher. Whitey Ford had just won his ninth straight game and lifted the Yankees into first place in the American League-for at least a few hours-by setting down the Detroit Tigers...
After years of disappointing flicker, the color-television industry at last shows signs of firming up. Besides RCA, which has been the only major manufacturer in the field since 1956, General Electric plans to start making color-TV sets again in the fall. And in Chicago last week, squads of engineers were busily tooling up a production line for Zenith Radio Corp.'s new color set-a product that will be unique in at least one respect. Zenith's prices, company officials proudly claim, will start well above those of competing models now on the market...
...prowl is grace itself. He flows down the court, head bobbing, shoulders feinting, every part of his body blended into one rhythmical pattern of deception. At his side, controlled by a sensitive hand, bounces a basketball that seems to accompany him like an old and trusted friend. For the flicker of a second, a Royal breaks loose, and in that instant Robertson hits him with a pass. Says Robertson of the art of passing: "Throw it as close to your man's head as you can. It'll get by-he'll have to blink...
However accurate his guess, Hall keeps his eyes focused on the puck, never tries the controversial trick of watching a shooter's eyes for the flicker that tips off the direction of the shot. To shove him self quickly around the cage, Hall pulls on the goal posts or the bar across the top of the net. When a shot actually comes, Hall has no time to think. He picks off the puck with anything handy-his padded chest, a skate, his flat, stubby stick or his huge left mitt. Says he: "Afterwards you have time to figure...