Word: flashings
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...Peter Wilson, the 6-ft. 4-in. chairman of Sotheby's of London, who last year bought out Manhattan's Parke-Bernet. Wilson suavely built up the prices with Etonian aplomb. "You have to act like a croupier in a casino," he had explained beforehand. "Not a flash. Not a flicker...
Eric Bregman as Sir Petronal Flash hadn't so obviously choreographed his part, but he never relaxed in it. With his oversexed wife for a foil, he should have been able to bring down the house with a glance...
Among others, Joe Palooka has survived 34 years as a world heavyweight boxing champion with nary a scar to show for it on his boyish face. Buck Rogers, the spaceman who confronted atom bombs as early as 1939, no longer plies the interplanetary routes. But Flash Gordon still zips through space at supersonic speed on the trail of highflying gangsters, while Prince Valiant moves at a snail's pace through meticulously drawn medieval sagas. And the whole idiom has been parodied by Li'I Abner, in which a collection of bulbous-nosed, ham-handed hillbillies makes monkeys...
...Doug Sanders does. A lanky, handsome Georgian who fancies brilliant blazers with 14-karat gold buttons, Sanders, 31, is the contemporary good-time Charlie of the pro-golf tour. Faced with a tricky shot, he has been known to march up to the prettiest face in the gallery, flash his warmest smile, and whisper hoarsely: "What do you suggest?" And at night-well, his fellow pros don't call him "Daiquiri Doug" for nothing. "I've spilled more than Tony
...encounter with the lecherous police chief Scarpia, splendidly portrayed by Baritone Tito Gobbi, Callas was at her supercharged best. When the soldiers carried off her Mario, they nearly buckled under her pummeling. She lurched desperately about the stage fending off Scarpia's advances, then in a violent flash drove a knife into his heart. Callas and Gobbi treated the Met to one of the best-acted performances it has seen in many a year...