Word: flickering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Clark, who has passed for 874 yards and rushed for 124 more. However, Clark played only in the first quarter last week, with junior Rich Willis seeing the majority of playing time at QB. Junior Mike Lenkaitis also played briefly, catching a touchdown pass from Clark on a flea-flicker...
...face off with Lamont, Cutone, Harvard's designated flicker, pushed the ball in the net with one strong, quick stroke to tie the game...
...tally -- 1,344 ayes, five nays and 27 abstentions -- might have added up to a lopsided victory elsewhere, but the flicker of opposition to a key Kremlin program was a historic event in the Soviet parliament, long considered no more than a rubber stamp. Had the leadership not sought a compromise last week between the central government and a handful of republics over proposed electoral changes, the count of naysayers might have been even higher...
...General Assembly decides to provide the P. L. O. chairman with a pulpit in Geneva, the U. S. comes under political and legal fire. -- A case for opening talks with the P. L. O. -- One Palestinian family' s struggle demonstrates why the intifadeh burns on and on. -- A flicker of opposition introduces democracy to a session of the Supreme Soviet. -- Italy' s great heroin scourge...
Hackman is probably the subtlest screen player of his generation. He is a genius at hiding his true feelings under humor, letting them show with a seemingly unconscious flicker of expression or an unfinished gesture. Dafoe stands up to him with the kind of flat-voiced certainty mastered only by men of few, but unshakable, principles. Though each learns something from the other, their relationship retains its pure scratchiness from beginning to end. These guys are never going to be buddies...