Word: flickering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first play from scrimmage, the Harvard corners showed great discipline as Holy Cross called a flea-flicker. Collar handed off to the running back, received the pitch back, and threw downfield. Both Waller and sophomore Willie Alford stayed with their men, and Waller went up in the air and took the ball away from the Crusaders' Hall...
...words from the movie trailer flicker across the small screen with quietly creepy menace: "Six miners lost in the wilds of Colorado in the 1870s," reads the first line, which dissolves as a suspenseful, subtonic noise rumbles from the sound track. "Five half-eaten corpses. One survivor...
...store and stumble out with a signature scrawled across a CD or on a poster or even on their skin. Some leave crying tears of joy. At a multiplex across the street, Fox is holding one of the first screenings of The Phantom Menace. You can see a flicker of hesitation on the faces of a few Phantom ticket holders. I thought I was in the red-hot center, the flicker seems to say. What's going on over there...
Where the technology could go from there is difficult to say, but Sejnowski anticipates big things. Ekman often used videotapes to gauge the emotional states of subjects, once detecting a brief flicker of sadness in the face of a patient who later turned out to be suicidal. A computer like Sejnowski's could have made the diagnosis in real time. Further down the road could be a host of other emotion-measuring computer systems, ranging from smart ATMs that can shut down if they spot a suspicious patron to television systems that can determine if a finger-wagging politician...
Every Thursday evening around 10 p.m., the participants of Mr. J's Midnight Croquet gather in the MAC Quad. While the windows of Kirkland, Lowell and Winthrop flicker from the televisions within, the croquet players set up their wickets...