Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lady Caroline, according to the butler, soothed him with the three blank checks and told him to fill them in for no more than $36,000-which he obeyed to the letter. "You are not going to get away with that sum for nothing," she added. "I expect to see you in Spain." Asked why he had been given such a sum by his mistress, the gentleman's gentleman presumed that "it was payment for services rendered . . . Makes me out a bit of a rogue, actually...
Considerably embarrassed, Lady Peek took the stand to deny categorically all of Maurice's statements. She insisted that the blank checks were meant to pay household bills. But her performance was less than convincing, and the judge instructed the all-male jury that her evidence was "not to be relied on." With that the jurors after 65 minutes declared Maurice not guilty, and the court apologized for the eight months he had been held in jail. "So much for British aristocracy," huffed the butler as he left court. "I'm finished with them." Gamekeeper Mellors...
...classification told LoDato that his 15-page proposal had been classified as "secret/restricted data." Subsequently, he says, AEC officials ordered him not to write down anything else on the subject, forced him to withhold a scientific report intended for the journal Nature, stamped every page (including a few blank pages) of his 79-page notebook as "secret/classified," and insisted that his colleagues and even his wife-who types his papers-be kept completely in the dark about his work. In an explanation that could have been cribbed from the pages of Catch-22, one AEC functionary said: "He is allowed...
...film that John Boorman has fashioned from James Dickey's novel is a magnificent visual experience and an assault on the senses fully as brutal as the river trip. Boorman (Point Blank, Hell in the Pacific) has made the river and the woods characters in themselves...
...give the film makers a break - which is more than they give the viewer - Prime Cut was obviously intended to be a tough, surreal gangster film in the Point Blank mold, a kind of jazzy allegory about brutality and dehumanization. Point Blank, however, had John Boorman directing Lee Marvin. Prime Cut has only Lee Marvin and a director who must have taken a very long lunch hour. Against all odds, Marvin summons up a measure of dignity. Hackman looks abashed...