Word: blanked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Candlestick Park shook, major league baseball shuddered and the World Series was split by tragedy. Debates raged about whether or not the Series should be finished, but for all intents and purposes--both competitively and in terms of fan interest--it was over the moment our television screens went blank...
...performance, so that the reviewer knows what is experimental abou the new performance. (Such knowledge might have helped Caroline Chaffin recognize the As You Like It sequence in Straight lines, which she is "not sure" she saw. It was the part where the actors began to speak in blank verse and then introduced themselves as characters from As You Like...
Reilly received a pass from Donovan intended for another player, faked out Post goaltender Ivan Savory--who had replaced besieged netminder Paul Benzing after the high-scoring first period--and whipped a point-blank shot into the twines to give Harvard an 11-10 lead. Sophomore Paul Faust and Donovan added unassisted insurance goals to seal the Crimson victory...
...specific meetings, memos, dates, names, Reagan's mind was pretty much a blank. General Vessey? "Oh dear, I could ask for help here. The name I know is very familiar." (It should be: he was Reagan's Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.) Adolfo Calero? Reagan could not recall the most famous of the contra leaders even after he was shown a picture of the two of them together at a White House gathering. He had somehow missed the fact that McFarlane pleaded guilty in 1988 to withholding information from Congress. Shown the section of the Tower commission report...
...While I am at it, I should mention Geraldo Rivera. Also professional golf. The baby-boom generation, at least when it puts on its self-regarding tribal panoply. The collected works of Sylvester Stallone. Deconstruction. The Super Bowl. The northward migration of the killer bees. Magazine articles that describe "Blank's Lonely Fight Against Blank." Anything that Jean-Paul Sartre ever wrote, said or thought. The intellectual life of Roseanne Barr. The works of Erica Jong, who once composed a poem with this line: "Actually we believe the carrot to be/ God's penis...