Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...burst through the turnstiles, only to be confronted with a labyrinth of gray ramps and blank beige walls, with no indication of where any of them lead. After losing your sense of direction, you may stumble across an usher in a gold blazer. Upon inspection of your ticket, he tells you--if you're lucky--"Keep going...
Klein also took to plunging in among crowds to shoot point blank, so that faces meet the lens with mostly tentative expressions. As Manet had done a century earlier in his paintings, Klein recognized in the suspended gaze one of the chief signifiers of the modern temper. But judged by the canons of good photography, those pictures looked fumbled, invertebrate. Klein's anarchic strengths went unappreciated by eyes looking for nice tonal gradations and the standard ironies. Where were the compositional ligaments that held even the airiest Andre Kertesz photo in an iron fist? Where was the fine printing...
...memos in the Tower report reveal both Ollie the dutiful Marine and Ollie the renegade cowboy. The commission found that North kept National Security Adviser John Poindexter "exhaustively informed" of his actions through a computer network they code-named "Private Blank Check." The name aptly describes the license Poindexter gave his aide to carry out foreign policy through questionable initiatives in the name of the U.S. In negotiations with Iranian officials, he announced that the U.S. was tilting away from its official policy of neutrality in the Iran-Iraq war, and he fabricated fantastic stories of meetings with the President...
...someone where Stanford is. It's a medium-sized city in North Dakota, they'll say. No, South Dakota. But if you ask them how to spell their own middle name, the only reply will be blank stares of ignorance...
...came next to a letter from some plebeian staff member at Late Night with David Letterman. Most of it was a typewritten form letter, with the usual blank spaces for personalization--like "Dear blank", "thank you for your interest blank", "thanks for your time blank", and "now get lost blank"--except for the handwritten note at the end of the letter, which read "as a result of your application Mr. Blank, we have decided to stop hiring graduates of the Harvard Lampoon until your publication can show that it is capable of producing people who are both funny...