It is the knife flash, the leap, the teeth.
In just 30 minutes, 13 dancers glide in and out of flashing lights, leap into one another's arms or slice through space to nail a tour en l'air on a scallop-shape stage that juts out like a ledge on a Miami hotel.
In keeping with the cat's-eye view of the world, Murphy's human figures look wooden — like marionettes or nutcrackers — while Anton and Cecil are all lithe grace and flashing eyes, leaping from dock to deck, or crouching behind wooden crates, ready to pounce on a fisherman's catch.
Avedon asks the Senator a question quietly, McCarthy replies, and as Avedon clicks the shutter of his Rolleiflex a flash of light leaps back from the gray umbrella, sending a wash of soft light forward onto McCarthy's face.
As he follows one disillusioned young man through his day on October 6 , 1981— the day that President Anwar Sadat was assassinated by members of a militant, underground Islamic group — Mahfouz melds illusion and reality through the eyes of his protagonist, Ilwan, and flashes of memory leap about in time.
With a flash of silver, salmon leap four times their length to ascend the falls.
The action leaps from one flash point to the next while the firebug lurks in the smoke, getting his sexual jollies from the destruction and adding a Stygian dimension to a hot and hellish story.
The punishing role of Konstanze tests a coloratura soprano with extravagant roulades and runs that leap registers in a flash from chesty lows to stratospheric highs.
When the phrase "sleeping like the slaughtered" is uttered offhandedly, a huge chunk of painful history leaps out in a flash.
In a flash Aramark's building-and-grounds roster leapt from 350 clients to 1,800.
