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  • Flitting between 1953 – when a man undergoes experimental brain surgery that leaves him with memory impairment – and 2401, when the same man's brain can be read like a book, 2401 Objects hopes to be a show that lingers long in the mind of the viewer.

    This week's new theatre 2011

  • Flitting, he hoped, like a shadow wafted by a summer breeze.

    Father Swarat Matt Dennison 2010

  • Flitting a look sideways, I saw that his paper was several lines deep and growing.

    hush, hush Becca Fitzpatrick 2009

  • Flitting between terrestrial specificity and its cosmic significance, Mahon, like his chuckling gods, "promotes the comical to the sublime" and builds a sense of wonder at the movement of material and spiritual energy.

    Archive 2009-09-01 Rus Bowden 2009

  • Flitting a look sideways, I saw that his paper was several lines deep and growing.

    hush, hush Becca Fitzpatrick 2009

  • Flitting between terrestrial specificity and its cosmic significance, Mahon, like his chuckling gods, "promotes the comical to the sublime" and builds a sense of wonder at the movement of material and spiritual energy.

    Great Regulars: For all his Hindu allusions, Rus Bowden 2009

  • Flitting a look sideways, I saw that his paper was several lines deep and growing.

    hush, hush Becca Fitzpatrick 2009

  • Flitting from school to school is not a very efficient use of scholarship money -- you almost certainly lose credits that way, not to mention that most schools, certainly the stronger ones, will require that you get some minimum number of hours in courses at that institution.

    GOP Rep. Says There's No "Thread" Of Patriotism In Obama's Background 2009

  • Flitting a look sideways, I saw that his paper was several lines deep and growing.

    hush, hush Becca Fitzpatrick 2009

  • Flitting across his screen, at the same moment, was a bid to buy for $200.

    Fast, Yes. Easy? No. 2008

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