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, the flashes of racial feeling, the sober (and dyspeptic) public commentary--one could transplant it all from one era to another, without risk of anachronism.
I sometimes found myself wishing he would let the picture catch its breath, that the performers would stop coming at me in stroboscopic flashes.
Dark forest green and black predominate in the early Batuan pictures, relieved by flashes of white and amber.
When she hears herself saying that being with her husband is "like being with papa," she pauses for a second, then flashes her eyes with something close to a recognition of primal sin, utters a sound somewhere between a hysterical giggle and a shriek of horror, and rushes across the room as if in flight from her own words.
And there are occasional flashes of insight.