Word: blanke
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...city, an isolation that could help explain the junta's underwhelming reaction to Cyclone Nargis, which left an estimated 134,000 people dead or missing. A Naypyidaw map vividly sums up the willful seclusion of Burma's leaders: the space where the generals' lavish homes should be is completely blank...
Scherer looked every inch the infantry officer while radioing back to base and calling out the mock casualties that volunteer “enemies” inflicted upon the squad by firing real M16s with blank rounds...
...pick up chicks. Harrison’s fresh, energetic portrayal of Stillman comes across on screen, but his role is limited by simple dialogue and an uninteresting storyline. Reynolds seems to realize his character’s lack of depth and submits to it, presenting the same blank facial expression when his wife leaves him as he does at the poker table. “Deal” is not a bet worth taking. For actual entertainment, turn on the World Series of Poker on ESPN. After all, it’s free...
...Policy and an expert on animals and religion, argues that it can also come from a misunderstanding of religious traditions. He notes that many preachers point to the passage in Genesis where God grants man “dominion” over the beasts of the wild as a blank check to treat animals at our will. He argues that the Hebrew word for “dominion” in is the same word that the Bible uses to refer to a King’s rule over his subjects. He says that “stewardship?...
...subjects escape the artist's bleak skepticism. Still lifes tend to comment on the transience of things, but Goya's piles of lifeless fish and game lend unexpected violence to this theme: the white fur of a rabbit's belly exposes the wound where it was shot; the blank eyes of a lamb's skull look disconsolately at its butchered torso. Equally unsettling, a large painting of The Taking of Christ is notable less for the sorrowful figure at its center than for the jeering, crazed mob that surrounds him. The same menacing irrationality appears in disturbing later works such...