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Dartmouth continued its passing assault in the second stanza. QB Teevens connected with wide receiver Jim Marcella for 47 yards. The Green gainer set up a four yard TD flicker to halfback Jim Eden for a commanding 21-0 Dartmouth bulge at intermission...
Blue Triangle. There was a religious, or at least numinous basis to nearly all of Kupka's imagery; even a strict geometrical abstraction like Untitled, 1931, retains in its big blue triangle a flicker of pointillist light that had been appearing in his work since he began studying the stained glass of Chartres...
...other hand," writes Editor Wolf, a professor of English who once taught a course on Dracula at San Francisco State University, "from its pages there rise images so dreamlike and yet so imperative that we experience them as ancient allegories. Everywhere one looks, there flicker the shadows of primordial struggles; the perpetual tension between the dark and the light; the wrestling match between Christ and Satan; and finally, the complex allegories of sex: sex in all its unimaginable innocence, or sex reeking with the full perfume of the swamp. And all these urgencies are seen or sensed through...
Some hope still exists that Congress and the White House can get together on energy policy, but it is barely a flicker. Democrats contend that Ford's strategy of raising prices is the wrong way to force oil conservation, but they cannot agree on any approach of their own. A bill that the White House described as a "marshmallow" finally squeaked through the House Ways and Means Committee before the recess. It would, among other things, raise the federal tax on gasoline from its present 4? to 7? next January, tax business use of petroleum, and levy...
...supervisor strolled casually over to one of the secretaries. "Do me a favor, will you? Stop by the bank on your lunch hour to pay my phone bill-and still get back on time." Coolly, with only a flicker of hesitation, the secretary answered: "Look, I love working with you, but I feel very strongly that people in secretarial positions should not be asked to do personal favors for their bosses...