Word: flashings
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...Houston's direction, I made an enormous effort to revive my poor star. At first I thought to myself that this would probably occur as the gradual brightening of a star in the blackness. But instead, and all of a sudden, I saw the black sky suddenly flash into total, blinding white light. And in an inexplicable way I could see thousands of stars everywhere in the blazing whiteness. Quite unexpectedly, the black sky flashed again into my mind, eliminating the light, but the white sky quickly returned, and I was confident that it was going...
...meeting was scheduled for 2 p.m. Vonnegut entered the room at approximately 2:11. He stood in a dark recess, the only light coming from the tip of his cigarette and the flash bulbs reflected off his blue suit. His first words were, "Are all you people here for my course...
...Downs Park is a prep school-a staging area from which very little boys can go on to the public schools. Perhaps predictably, the school's most gifted master turns out to be a thoughtful, non-U escapee from a technical college. Yet academic cliches and characters alike flash into brief, tantalizing existence, in part because the author talks about them in a tone of voice which hovers suggestively between satiric irony and compassion...
...father's exhilaration and hope. Her mother's pain. Her own despair. Are all behind Maria. She is so much the anesthetist's victim that her only sense of being alive comes from "the physical flash of walking in and out of places, the temperature shock, the hot wind blowing outside, the heavy frigid air inside...
...father's exhilaration and hope. Her mother's pain. Her own despair. Are all behind Maria. She is so much the anesthetist's victim that her only sense of being alive comes from "the physical flash of walking in and out of places, the temperature shock, the hot wind blowing outside, the heavy frigid air inside...