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...Manufacturers Philco and Du Mont demonstrated machines designed to get a much-better-than-ordinary picture from TV film. Using prisms and a new light source, the machines (already in production) scan the film continuously, thus eliminating the flicker of ordinary film projection...
...real opportunity of escape lay with the Rosenbergs themselves. If they broke their long silence-if they confessed the secrets of their spy ring-then the President might consider a new appeal for clemency. But up to now the Rosenbergs have clung to their dark secrets, have shown no flicker of regret...
...show-stealer is Tinker Bell, Peter Pan's lustrously blonde playmate. On the stage, Tinker Bell has usually been depicted as a flicker of light. (In the earlier movie version, she was an automobile headlight bulb decorated with tinsel, and manipulated with a fluttery movement on the end of a fishing pole.) Through the magic of the animated cartoon, she is a bosomy little vamp, not much bigger than a dot of light, who flits about enchantingly with a silvery tinkle of bells in a sprinkle of golden pixie dust...
...royal family than any Westerner in history. She found the Emperor a "shy and sensitive man," the Empress a "comfortable, motherly figure." But her favorite royal personage was twelve-year-old Crown Prince Akihito himself-"a lovable-looking small boy, round-faced and solemn but with a flicker of humor in his eyes...
...lost cause." He enters a half-waking trance, broken only by his groaning, hiccuping and incomprehensible muttering. In the small hours of May 5, 1821, he cries: "Who retreats?", and then.: "At the head of the Army!" In the late afternoon, Napoleon sighs three times, his pupils flicker, his chin twitches up & down with "clockwork regularity"-and an equerry hurries off to inform the British governor that it is all over...