Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...intense dislike for the attendant administrative and social duties. In America, he has been known primarily for his 23 years as a guest conductor with the Chicago Symphony. Los Angeles won him by offering freedom from paper work, a lighter-than-usual five-month load, and a blank check. A tall, slim, aristocratic man, Giulini is the rare maestro who is truly loved by his musicians. They may grumble about his perfectionism or his occasionally erratic tempi. But, says Victor Aitay, Chicago's co-concertmaster, "he approaches music as a religion, like the devoted Catholic he is. He feels...
...White House correspondent, Barrett naturally spends a certain amount of time trying to fill in his blank "dance card" with high-level sources in the Carter camp. But the broad terms of the job are as familiar to him as the keys on a typewriter. For 20 years, Barrett has made U.S. politics his beat. A graduate of Columbia's School of Journalism, he joined the New York Herald Tribune in 1957. Soon he became the Tribune's city hall bureau chief, with a regular column, "City Hall Beat," and wrote The Mayor of New York, a then...
Gary Busey, himself a part-time rock musician with Leon Russell's band, delivers Holly's hits adequately; his That'll Be the Day palls only when compared point-blank with the original. As an actor. Busey comes into his own this time around, after a career of character roles in little-seen films (Straight Time, The Last American Hero). Whether he is playing Holly as a hick in the big city or a lovesick husband or a teen-age idol, Busey always seems convincing. He brings a swagger to the musical numbers and an engaging buck...
Goalkeeper Fillol kept the home country on top at the half by stopping a point-blank blast at the one-minute mark with a sliding kick save...
...Amis' introduction piles condition upon condition, the fear arises that his book will consist of blank pages. Instead, the anthology presents nearly 300 separate entries, the work of more than 120 poets. The only major writer to receive substantial space is Byron. Though it is preferable to read Don Juan whole, Amis' excerpts do underscore this long poem's consistent, sparkling hilarity. Byron on government bureaucrats is, unfortunately, still timely. Ask a neighbor, he advised...