Word: blanked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bernard Wolfman, a Harvard law professor, cites the example of an expensive restaurant in Washington, "right in the shadow of the IRS," where he and a group of other lawyers were given signed tax receipts for their dinner, and then saw that the amount had been left blank, to be filled in according to the diner's conscience. "Face it," says Wolfman, "waiters in nice restaurants are serving people they know are deducting the bills racked up in those places. Lower-and middle-income people are not dumb just because they don't have loopholes. They know...
...people under stress; in his paintings, the lid on the urban pressure cooker is always about to blow. He began to make a reputation two or three years ago with life-size figures of men and women apparently in their late 20s, starkly drawn in graphite on a blank ground, twisting and grimacing and staggering. They were, of course, done from photos (only the camera can cut movement into such inscrutable, violent morsels), and their power lay in their uncertainty: Were the people getting shot, having strokes or dancing at the MuddClub...
Among the most incredible were the saves on two point-blank Dave Burke shots at the game's midway point a stop Dennis made sliding across the goal mouth to rogb Scott Fusco early in the third period and those he made on each member of the starting line during Harvard's final man advantage of the game with about six minutes to play...
...Crimson goalie came fighting back Just minutes after the first goal. Blair was called on to stop a point-blank rebound attempt by Billy McDonough during a power play and survived a Rob Monleon breakaway when the Eagle right wing shot wide
Other memorable enclosures have come to his office. A woman once sent two items: an empty envelope from the Alabama Department of the Treasury and a blank white envelope. A four-page collage of magazine clips was the interesting enclosure of another letter but it was upstaged by the envelope with 22 different U.S. stamps including a 1/2c. Yet another multimedia package has been contributed by Heaven on Earth, a society that has been in touch with UFOs and has produced a casette tape detailing its contact: with the alien beings. Both Bell and Hightower enjoy being the receptors...