Word: flickeringly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sellers is remarkably cunning about his funning: even when he's trying to get a laugh, he never really seems to be trying, so when he fails he never really seems to have failed. Which may explain why, in this 25-minute snicker at the usual British gumshoe flicker, a miss is as good as a smile...
...Chicago, Negro Paul Crump, 32, read from the Bible and Socrates, watched the lights of his Cook County cell flicker as officials tested the electric chair behind a green steel door just 20 steps away. He was waiting, as he had been through nine years and 14 reprieves, to die for the holdup-slaying of a Chicago industrial guard...
...sale, Wilson pored over the catalogue, noting in his private code bids already phoned in and the reserve price below which Maugham would not sell. From his opening announcement-"Lot No. 1. Roderick O'Conor's Still Life with Vegetables"-he presided over the sale without a flicker of nervousness, apart from shooting a cuff now and then. The 35 paintings went for $1,466,864, including $244,000-the highest price ever paid at auction for a living artist-for a Picasso curiosity that showed The Death of Harlequin on one side and Woman Seated...
Favor seekers still wait in the anteroom of Capitol Suite P-38. Secretary Mary Margaret Wiley still decorates a corner. In the cavernous inner office, known to many Capitol Hill denizens as the Throne Room, the lights on the telephone console still flicker on and off as Democratic Senate leaders call to report on the latest state of legislative affairs. Everything seems the same; yet nothing really is, for the past 13 months have seen a profound change in the life of Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson...
Though he admits to being only a noodler himself, Simonton never lacks for live music. Famed Theater Organist Jesse Crawford-"the Poet of the Organ"-comes over to practice on the Wurlitzer three days a week. And when Simonton reels off a silent flicker in his basement Bijou, he always has on hand an oldtime organist to accompany the picture with the requisite mysteriosos and agitatos...