Word: flashes
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Digital pictures of Besim Kadriu continue to flash across the Internet, keeping the band of doctors following his case informed of his progress. In California, Dan Clay has been especially thrilled to see the images. "I think I will always rate downloading those photos from Manchester as one of the greatest moments of my medical career," he says. "He looks beautiful...
...tragedy of the New York City and Los Angeles events is that as crime rates fell, confidence in the police in the minority community fell with them. The police had an unprecedented opportunity to be at the front lines of healing the racial divide. Instead the police remain the flash point for racial tension...
Although Princeton eventually won 63-48, Harvard had a flash of brilliance in defeat...
...surprising ambivalence, what he calls "America's low tide." Popular memory tends to conjure the '70s as the bummed-out, banalized aftermath of the '60s, which were the authentic circus. Frum has a more interesting take. He considers the '60s, for all their noise and flash, comparatively inconsequential. "But the 'social' transformation of the 1970s was real and was permanent," he says. It left a country more dynamic, tolerant, socially equal and sexual, but also less literate, less polite and almost infinitely fractious...
...grisly murder in horror films wails like a banshee each time. In another sequence, one of the sisters heaves the other, strapped to a straight-backed chair, up a narrow flight of stairs, thumping on each step until they're around the corner and out of sight. In another flash, a chunk of bloody flesh hits the wall. The beauty of all this is that we are given hints of a story without ever being let in on what it's all about. We identify the borrowed horror techniques, like inside jokes, but are kept at arm's length from...