Word: flickers
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...abrupt revelation that Nathan is a schizophrenic--crucial to the plot--does not satisfactorily account for Kline's flamboyant magnetism, that magnetism nevertheless is riveting. Kline apes MacNicol's Southern accent and frolics through extravagant pranks and outings while Streep watches him in mute, almost abject admiration: not a flicker of an eyelid spoils the effect...
...scene opens in pitch darkness, except for the flicker of some electronic indicator and the calm cobalt face of the monitor. When time begins moving, it is with a queer jerky stylization, folding in on itself. Beckett's characters on paper are so surrealistic, so utterly removed from normal constraints or modes of reference, that it's an initial shock to see one walking around. The fifty-is Gullett, white hair frizzed, eyes bugged out, toddles and grumbles like a Monty Python animated character, and it's a long while before he talks...
...brave beginning, and one that surprised U.S. analysts by its strength, but despite the evident similarity to the events of 1980, history did not repeat itself in Gdansk last week. General Wojciech Jaruzelski, head of the military regime, made it clear from the first flicker of protest that his government would not give an inch...
FIFTEEN HUNDRED MILES from the nearest flicker of civilization, in the depths of the Peruvian jungle, a mile-long clearing has been hacked to connect two rivers. On one bank rests a 300-ton steamship with its nose pointed up the 40-degree slope of a mountain, looking like a stranded whale waiting to climb a steep beach. A series of ropes connect the ship to massive human-powered wooden winches and a lone bulldozer. The engineer, who designed the system to tackle a 20-degree grade, has quite fearing for the lives of the Indian workers if a metal...
...caught, the enemy will try to break the code, but it will not succeed. The messages are written in a rarely used cipher called Multiflex--entailing a lot of Kings write and 38 Veer and 34 Dive and Able Baker Charlie, play-pass, hide the QB, flee-flicker type stuff--which only a small circle of friends known as the Harvard football team can turn into ordinary English. I will never tell the secret. They may torture me, but they will only get name, rank group and bursar's card number...