Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first by a high-ranking military specialist at SALT negotiations since Gerald Ford met with Leonid Brezhnev at Vladivostok in 1974. Gromyko also brought a thick folder marked Pervaya Beseda (First Session). Noticing that Chief U.S. SALT Negotiator Paul Warnke, on Vance's right, had only a blank legal pad, Gromyko asked jokingly whether that meant the Americans had neglected to bring any new proposals. Of course, Gromyko knew better. Vance soon offered a detailed presentation of the U.S. position, while Soviet aides took notes furiously...
...short as the walk from the pond to the studio. In his genius for rendering evanescence within a monumental structure, Monet became a master of le temps retrouvé: the most Proustian of painters. His truer literary equivalent, though, was the symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé. The blank page, for Mallarmé, trembled with possibility, as calm water or the tight-stretched canvas did for Monet. Its white flatness was not an absence: it was a poetic element, possessing the character of thought. "The intellectual armature of the poem," Mallarmé once wrote, "conceals itself, is present...
...This leaves the play almost unbelievably short--the whole thing takes an hour-and-a-half, including a 15-minute intermission and scene changes. Along with the director's rapid-fire pacing of the scenes, this insures that The Changeling won't give audiences an overdose of post-Shakespearean blank verse--which most of the actors cope well with anyway...
...fast break in the first half. We weren't breaking like we had to," Faught said. And while Harvard was missing easy passes on its break, Cornell was breaking furiously, taking helpless Harvard goalie Ken First high, low, east and west with easy point-blank shots. First had ten first-half saves, and he only had a chance on two of the ten goals...
...turned in a respectable performance, but any chances they had for an upset were smothered by the brilliant play of Red goalie John Griffin. Griffin allowed just five goals in three quarters of action, making Cornell's cage seem virtually impenetrable as he repelled--among other volleys--four point-blank shots from Faught, Bill Forbush and Martin (twice...