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Perhaps it was inevitable that the 1988 crop of presidential candidates, flicking around the country, answering or ducking questions they had heard before, should become so practiced and unreal. Watching them perform for two hours, a viewer could not say he now knew them better. He had only caught their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newswatch: More Professional, Less Human | 11/16/1987 | See Source »

Sitting quietly, almost motionlessly onstage, protectively cradling his six-string Hauser guitar, his left hand moving swiftly and smoothly across the frets, his right hand flicking the strings gently with its fingernails, Segovia was a picture of concentration. A Segovia recital was as hushed as a whisper, as rapt as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mastering The Sounds of Silence | 6/15/1987 | See Source »

Harvard hockey is fast. Forwards don't get trapped often in the corners but cruise down the center of the ice, flicking passes back and forth. Precision. Pretty.

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: A Bright Pageant, On and Off the Ice | 12/6/1986 | See Source »

Toad processed words like a demon. His fingers flew across the keys, and the words arrayed themselves on a magic screen before him. Here was a miracle that imitated the very motions of his brain, that teleported paragraphs here and there--no, there!--as quickly as a mind flicking through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Scribble, Scribble, Eh, Mr. Toad? | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

Neilson worked on her wrist shot, taking Brita Lind's pass from the corner boards and flicking it into the low twines at 5:11.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Icewomen Rout BC | 2/6/1986 | See Source »

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