Word: flickers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...left, frustration and disillusionment grew, despite its edge in opinion polls. On the right, last week, there was a faint flicker of hope. At a Paris dinner party, a wealthy baron confided that he had just placed a bet of $10,000 with Ladbrokes, the British bookmakers, on a victory for the present government. The odds: 4 to 5. The left's chances were rated at dead even. The baron explained that he was not counting on any change in voter sentiment. The left would lose, he said, because after the first round of voting, the Communists would refuse...
...work, its structure. As Waldman suggests in her catalogue essay, his paintings have moved from expressionism to a kind of abstract, though physically intrusive, impressionism. De Kooning's East Hampton subjects are classic impressionist ones-the nude in the landscape, the jostle of marine reflections, the movement and flicker of small painterly units that correspond to the "feel" of light and wind...
...attacker has such an aperture. Nevertheless he has forced a crack in the dreaded robot's pawn fortress, and he sends his queen slashing in, punching "H3 to H6" and the encode button on the keyboard. The red light-emitting diodes of the machine's digital display flicker for about 30 seconds...
...sticky, hot night, and several hundred people wait on hard wooden benches. Fireflies flicker, and on a small, lighted stage four country-suited musicians quietly fidget. In their midst stands an imposing figure dressed in white and wearing a broad-brimmed hat. "I once played the mandolin all the way from Fort Wayne to Nashville without stopping!" he thunders into a microphone. "Don't nobody think I can't play all night if I want to!" As the crowd cheers, the big man leans forward and madly strums the opening riffs to Orange Blossom Special. Says a woman...
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...