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Routinely, the state-run TV network in Ethiopia puts on a prime-time horror show intended-quite literally-to terrify the nation's 28 million inhabitants. Shots of racked bodies of political prisoners tortured to death, corpses of dissidents shot down by mobs of armed vigilantes-they all flicker across the screen as evidence of the ruthless determination of what may be one of the most brutal and arbitrary regimes in power today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ETHIOPIA: Farewell to American Arms | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

...backhand drive by George Hughes found its way past Red goalie Steve Napier with just over five minutes remaining in the second, cutting the Cornell lead to 5-2. Five minutes into the third, Crimson defenseman Bob Leckie drilled home a slap shot from the point, and a flicker of hope passed through the close-to-capacity crowd...

Author: By Thomas Aronson, | Title: Forget Monday's Beanpot: Cornell 7, Harvard 4 | 2/10/1977 | See Source »

...That flicker became a full-fledged fire 81 seconds later, when Murray Dea picked up a loose puck for the shorthanded Crimson (Hughes was in the box for hooking) and blistered a slapper past Napier from 20 feet out to make it 5-4. Reverting to its skating form of two nights ago, Harvard was making a game...

Author: By Thomas Aronson, | Title: Forget Monday's Beanpot: Cornell 7, Harvard 4 | 2/10/1977 | See Source »

...thick, solitary splendor of the movie studio, Monroe Stahr weaves dreams. He watches images flicker by in the screening room, demands improvement. Amendments, modifications, excisions-all flow in the sharp, regular rhythm of a master musician keeping time by snapping his fingers. "The last scene was too gory-cut out one roll of the table," or, "Reshoot the whole scene." His taste is peerless, but it would have to be. The production chief of a major studio like MGM in the early '30s, Stahr holds absolute authority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Babylon Revisited | 12/6/1976 | See Source »

...flicker of a TV set as the dial is clicked: rocket, eagle, Kennedy, dancer, oranges, box, all registered with the peacock-hued, aniline-sharp intensity of electronic color. The subject was glut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Most Living Artist | 11/29/1976 | See Source »

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