Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feet tall, weighed only 130 Ibs., had hawklike features and a glance so concentrated as to seem ferocious. He got a job copying in a lawyer's office. Electrified by reading Prescott's Conquest of Mexico, he studied Spanish, began writing a novel about Montezuma in a blank book one wintry night. He became a political reporter, for substantial fees helped lazy legislators draft their bills, became second sergeant in his home-town rifle company, and failed his bar examination. "Goodbye," said his father, when he marched away to the Mexican War, "come back...
...think the cover of TIME should be left blank, for two reasons...
...week's end, Rivera ungraciously exposed Siqueiros' attempt to supply him with an alibi. In a letter to El Popular Diego admitted that he had indeed shot at the bus driver-but with a blank cartridge. Denouncing efforts to picture him as a lover of the proletariat who went around shooting proletarians, Rivera said that he had shot in self-defense after the bus driver had tried to run him down. He had been coming home peacefully in his station wagon, he said, when he found the Calle Centenario blocked by a bus. There were excited words, spiced...
...script (which he is said to have written) has a charming, blank-verse hauteur that just possibly may be a bit asinine-but the direction saves the day by insisting on a witty, natural reading. Fairbanks has also inflicted an extreme lilt on the rhythm of the film-a lilt that would be annoying if it were not necessary to keep the lame plot marching along...
Anyone who wanders into "Unconquered" with a completely blank mind will come out refreshed, and imbued with the feeling that as long as Gary Coopers are around, America cannot fail. Later it will dawn on him he has just witnessed the greatest Technicolor carload of DcMille hokum yet produced. Settlers and Indians battle in this latest epic from the master of the crowd scene, which has hero Cooper rubbing elbows with George Washington, Mason and Dixon, Richard Henry Lee, and a host of other non-controversial historical figures...