Word: flickerings
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...posturing crackpot of the war crimes, Rudolf Hess. He brushed aside the headphones which would have brought him the German translation of Justice Lawrence's sentence in English: life imprisonment. Not by a flicker of an eyelash did fox-chinned Hess betray surprise at the clemency he had received. The mill ground...
...brought Madame de Gaulle to dine with us. . . .I realized at once . . . that I would never know him, that here was a man whom it would be impossible to call a friend. ... No flicker of interest lifted his hooded eyelids. . . . When I looked full at him I saw nothing, nothing but a lifeless figure, wrapped in a palpable coldness that hid him as a damp cloth hides a sculptor's clay...
Harpo, who is somewhat restrained in this flicker, has one or two excellent scenes. His pantomimic ability reaches its zenith in a sequence with Punch and Judy. Chico and Zeppo distribute themselves capably, though their comic action hardly approaches that of their more gifted brothers...
Died. John Logic Baird, 58, a canny Scot who turned an uncanny trick in 1924 when he switched on a homemade gadget (set up on a washstand in a garret over a flower shop), a moment later saw the first picture ever televised flicker on a screen two yards away; after influenza; in Bexhill, Sussex...
...Haven, when the flicker which opens the show refused to flick, the unperturbed Welles cracked: "This just proves what many of us in the theater have felt right along . . . movies are not here to stay...