Word: flickers
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...began trying to persuade us to, say, associate the Roman numeral 2000--MM--with a certain candy-coated chocolate. Even the Y2K problem has morphed from potential cataclysm to commercial punch line: a Nike ad shows a man going for a jog New Year's morning as the lights flicker out around town, money shoots out of ATMs, people panic in the streets, and an errant missile zooms by overhead. On the one hand, the passing of a thousand years is staggering for a mortal of perhaps 80 years' life-span to apprehend; on the other, its commercialization renders...
...Marshall Islands, where a Navy fighter pilot loses control of his computer-assisted jet and plunges to his death. In Scandinavia a nuclear power plant suffers a sudden, deadly meltdown. And at midnight in Times Square in New York City celebration turns to riot when the lights flicker...
...encounter with tequila that had its most lasting effect. That entire summer after I returned from Mexico, I didn't think. I would sit on buses and have not a single thought flicker on my screen. Emptiness, numbness. I had never felt it before. I loved...
...first play from scrimmage, the Harvard corners showed great discipline as Holy Cross called a flea-flicker. Collar handed off to the running back, received the pitch back, and threw downfield. Both Waller and sophomore Willie Alford stayed with their men, and Waller went up in the air and took the ball away from the Crusaders' Hall...
...words from the movie trailer flicker across the small screen with quietly creepy menace: "Six miners lost in the wilds of Colorado in the 1870s," reads the first line, which dissolves as a suspenseful, subtonic noise rumbles from the sound track. "Five half-eaten corpses. One survivor...