Word: blanke
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...huge eyesore, the boarded-up, decaying building that no one cares about anymore. That’s what I’m looking for.” Heidi Schork, director of the Boston Youth Fund Mural Crew (BYFMC), loves blank, abandoned walls, which Boston neighborhoods have in abundance. The BYFMC began as a offshoot of the city summer jobs program, with the modest mandate of covering up graffiti on shop fronts in Roxbury. Twelve years and over one hundred murals later, the Crew has expanded into a full-year program combining the goals of urban renewal, after-school program...
...nature of the syndrome is that as you go through college, you occasionally come across a stumbling block on the way to your goals—a bad grade, an internship rejection, a nasty break-up—fill your favorite disappointment in the blank. These disappointments unleash the self-esteem gremlin, who mockingly says, “Ha! I told you that you would fail. Doesn’t [disappointment from above] show that you really don’t have what it takes? Face it-you’re just not good enough...
...final battle ended with most combatants having exhausted their ammunition, and HSS member Jason M. Bussey, a Harvard Law School student, getting shot in his face mask at point blank range. “When Jeff [E. Heck ’03, a CI member] plastered Jason in the face from three feet away when he tried to make him surrender—I’d have to say that was a memorable moment,” said CI member Benjamin T. Littauer...
...Green extended its lead five minutes later when Frazier found a cutting Moulin. Later, only a huge Mancini save on a point-blank shot from Frazier with less than 11 minutes remaining kept Harvard within three...
...intensity. After Fenton’s father tells of his divine task, Fenton responds with understandable skepticism that eventually decays into abject panic and hardened frustration as the body count mounts. When Dad excessively punishes Fenton for insubordination, O’Leary invests in his tortured son role a blank-faced, darkly brooding quality that is wonderfully mature considering...