Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Francisco Aleman, a former chief of naval intelligence who disappeared on April 2. Last month, too, kidnapers crashed their truck into the car of Colonel Hector Iribarren, chief of intelligence for the Third Army Corps, and, when the dazed officer grappled with them, they killed him with a point-blank burst of automatic weapon fire...
...screenplay. To illustrate that Max's coarseness and brutality are only a defense, he has him dress in layers of clothing, ragged protective armor that Max sheds in a perilously symbolic striptease. It will not do for White to have Lion just freak out; he must grow blank and rigid right on the stone paws of a lion that decorates a Detroit fountain. Director Schatzberg (The Panic in Needle Park, Puzzle of a Downfall Child) bats out these sorry epiphanies and maudlin metaphors with the eager aplomb of a rookie swatting fungoes...
...that Society was not equal to the sum of its parts. Henry Ford made parts interchangeable. Voltaire said that "we must cultivate our own garden." Thomas Jefferson owned a large plantation. John Locke told us that when we are born our minds are like a tabula rasa, or a "blank slate." John Dewey thought we should keep it that way. History has taught us many lessons, few of which anyone remembers...
...Constantin Costa-Gavras, the movie is a fictionalized account of the real-life killing of an American official in Uruguay. Calling Stevens' action bald censorship, directors of as many as a third of the films to be shown in the opening festivities withdrew, leaving Stevens with a blank screen to fill-and a perhaps lasting legacy of bitterness for the fledgling film institute...
...enshrining education, Mann built upon a Western tradition rooted in the Enlightenment. John Locke believed that all minds at birth were blank slates and all children were equally and infinitely educable. To Rousseau, education made men good, and through them made society better. But for the most part in England and France those notions remained only ideals, kept from fulfillment by the twin barriers of social class and privilege. In the New World, however, they flowered into a secular religion. Ragged immigrants were supposed to be molded into Americans through their education, which provided even the poorest child with...