I keep flashing back more than two decades, to 1991.
On the television screens that list departures in Grand Central Terminal, sometimes the track number for my train will keep flashing after it has been posted.
Its executives can keep flashing the cash and driving up rights costs, but in the course of doing so will create a mighty rod for their own backs.
If a tire's pressure drops by four pounds per square inch, its valve cap will start flashing — and keep flashing for three weeks or more, in case the tires lose pressure when you are not around.
She has, understandably, no wish to revisit the episode, but she seems to struggle, a bit, with her newfound media training-by-fire: her instinct seems to be to answer a question directly put; experience tells her it would probably be a bad idea, the two imperatives keep flashing across her face.
I keep flashing back to a biblical passage I read the Saturday before the attack, the day of the year when Jews recite in their synagogues a portion of the Hebrew Bible so frightening it can be read only in a whisper.
