Word: flashings
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...wild way with a camera that leaves the eye spinning. In Lights, a 5½-minute study of Manhattan after dark, she slashes at her subject with a camera as an action painter slashes at his canvas, and the great stone city breaks up into a wriggling calligraphy of flash and filigree...
During the past 20 years, John D. MacDonald, now 50, has written 600 short stories and 53 books (A Flash of Green, The Girl, the Goldwatch and Everything) that have sold 32 million copies around the world. His fans will know just what ingredients to expect in his newest novel: busy, well populated pages, a swift and intricate plot, strong characters, believable dialogue, a surfeit of sex and violence. The late Ian Fleming, no mean tale spinner himself, said, "I automatically buy every John D. MacDonald as it comes...
Self-compelled to make painstaking preparations, Williams typically slept only four hours a night during the Baker trial. In the courtroom, he is in complete control. He has a computer memory for the remotest dates and details; his material is so well organized that documents flash into his hands like a magician's rabbits. His hair wavy, his calm buttoned down, he cross-examines hostile witnesses with utter courtesy; he seems never to be trying to trip them up, only to help the jury get things straight. He shuns anger: "It's not a useful emotion...
...Homecoming Vivien plays temptress and tigress, an enigmatic queen of the snarling jungle in her in-laws' house. Her hooded hazel eyes crinkle with bemusement, sag in boredom, flash with killing contempt or sexual electricity. Her fellow actors are all members in high standing of Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company, but it is Vivien who overpowers them all as the household whore-mother...
...high a time to sit still for speeches. So they hoped that Illinois Freshman Senator Charles Percy, 47, would keep it crisp when he rose to deliver an encomium to Everett McKinley Dirksen, who was the club's honored guest. Like a Big Ten cheer leader, Percy waved flash cards bearing each letter of Dirksen's full name. " 'E' is for Effectiveness," he began, and proceeded to expatiate on how effective Ev is. Then: " 'V is for Valor." By the time he got through all 22 cards to the final "N," the audience was howling...