LEAD: A Federal affidavit has provided a startling glimpse into the violence and enormous wealth surrounding the Medellin drug ring.

Later on, there is a startling glimpse of kiwi fruit and sun-dried tomatoes.

Lifting her head, she caught a sudden, startling glimpse of the inn dominating the wooded island.

As a result, they are making pictures and three-dimensional images of what would otherwise be uninterpretable data and are getting a startling glimpse of the physical world.

He paused a moment, puzzled, playing back in his mind that one startling glimpse.

Garrett's accounts from his 40 years as a peripatetic English professor nicely skewer academic foibles (and offer startling glimpses of luminaries like Bernard Malamud).

This doesn't prevent Ms. Williams from conveying, in startling glimpses, the very real sadness, regret, contempt and even compassion behind the mask.

If not, I found it to be a startling glimpse of what happens when social apps and advertisers find a way to finally reside in our brain.

Ellmann wrote: "Jelinek gives us a startling glimpse here of what women are, as well as answering Freud's question, 'What do women want?'

It was a startling glimpse into the mirror.