Word: flashings
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There is a new Muhammad Ali. Gone is the gentle smirk, the I-know-this-is-all-a-game look he would flash when reciting one of his poems. The words no longer flow. Instead, Ali forces them out. You can almost hear him thinking, "Got to sell this fight, got to...sell...this...fight." Ali now waves both arms like a broken wind-mill when he rants and raves. He has become a professional wrestler. He is Gorilla Monsoon...
...moral argument is not long or preachily dwelt on. Nor is a romance that might have developed between Redford and Jane Alexander, playing the Governor's aide who got him appointed. One sees the spark flash between them and then watches them immediately suppress it, as men and women often do when a larger task is at hand. Both are excellent, as are Yaphet Kotto and David Keith as prisoners trying to decide if they dare to give their trust to Brubaker. One might wish that Director Rosenberg could control his ever zooming, ever panning camera. Stillness would have...
...Jewish extremists on the occupied West Bank who may have brought the territory to a flash point? Most of them migrated there to live in the 64 Jewish settlements that have been established in the West Bank since it was captured by Israel in 1967. Many were moved by an idealistic conviction that they were settling in Eretz Israel, the biblical land of the prophets. Others had more contemporary, political motives. In any case, their zealous nationalism has spawned increasingly violent bouts of intercommunal strife between Arabs and Jews. As the reciprocal hostility has mounted, youthful Jewish settlers often roam...
...stories and the images flash by in tantalizing bits: a forest of radio telescopes in New Mexico that look like giant desert toadstools; shrimplike creatures that are found under the ice of Antarctica; a microscopic closeup of a sugar cube dissolving, creating a miniature tidal wave in a glass of water. The cameras record the compelling beauty of the scientist's search, as well as its frequent frustration and occasional loneliness...
...blood of 14 people beaten or shot to death, and 3,800 National Guardsmen withdrew from patrolling a 40-block by 60-block area of the shaken city, the nation had been jolted anew into a realization that black outrage at "a double standard of justice" still remains near flash point in many U.S. cities...