1.   Another screen flickers into action, and soon the Atlantis space shuttle appears against a backdrop of clouds.

2.   She said the screen flickered a few times and then everything went dead.

3.   The blank screen flickered awake, and the face that had been so haunting and so hateful to everyone in the room came into focus.

4.   The blank screen flickered awake, and the face that had become so haunting and so hateful to everyone in the room came into focus.

5.   The screen flickered against the night sky, and disembodied voices spoke beside the car window in a monophonic rasp.

6.   At the Aton Capital Group trading floor in Moscow, screens flickered with rows of red numbers indicating declining stock indexes around the world.

7.   Computer screens flickered with photos of suspects and booklets touted the virtues of cutting-edge information systems.