Word: flashings
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Harry Lewis '68 flicked a switch in front of him. Orange lights began to flash, a blue cross flitted about the computer screen like Tinkerbell, and a circle on the screen was slowly--dot by dot--transformed into an airplane wing...
...Green Flash. Such was Israel's answer to the sinking of the Elath-an act that had given Egypt particular, if short-lived, pleasure. For more than a day, the destroyer had been zigzagging back and forth in the bay of Romani, a niche in the Mediterranean at the entrance to the Suez Canal. In the knowledge that it was being tracked by radar from nearby Port Said, it alternately sped up and slowed down, darted from time to time into Egyptian territorial waters and then backed out again. It did almost everything but stick out its tongue...
...months traveling in Europe, Canada and the U.S.-though not Latin America, the Orient or the Iron Curtain countries. He returned from his foray with 221 paintings and 108 sculptures by 326 artists from 17 nations. Every idiom in the current vocabulary of art is represented: machines clang, lights flash and mobiles shift subtly. Von Groschwitz drew the line only at the European artist who submitted a piece of dynamic Dada that requires the viewer to light a fuse, then watch as the work blows up in his face...
...imprints itself on the spectators as they walk between the wall and light source. In the last room, another homage to the square is created by a bold six-inch-wide band of white light that moves in continuous waves around the room so rapidly that it seems to flash, even though the light square itself remains intact...
...extent that Harvard does involve itself in the ghetto, it is primarily under the aegis of the rotting schools themselves, in the context of Boston-run compensatory projects which use the name of Harvard in acquiring government money, profit perhaps from an occasional flash of insight, but which in raw fact make little or no dent upon the lives of any detectable number of black children and instead serve mainly to tie up Harvard's hands, the scholars themselves becoming hostage to the School Committee, arming it with prestige, tricking it out with bits of academia, and keeping the once...