Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...restoring the Legislature's power to regulate abortions, Massachusetts voters would not write lawmakers a blank check to overturn Roe v. Wade, as the majority opinion claims. In fact, the referendum is only trying to make this state's laws consistent with the U.S. Constitution...
...Harvard's oldest building, where a ghost purportedly visits each fall to take up the residence of his youth. The speaker also warned students that any photographs taken of her would not come out because of the strong supernatural presence in the room. Sure enough, the photographs came out blank...
Reynolds' rhetoric shows how profoundly the Administration misunderstands--or wishes to subvert--the nature and function of the judiciary. Reagan and team are playing games with the Constitution and mocking the court. The real goal, Reynolds has now told us virtually point blank, is not communion with the ideas of the Founding Fathers or a judiciary that defers to the other branches of government, but rather a right-wing Court...
...nearest town and leaves his wife and son with the car at an outpost in the middle of the desert. Some very spooky cowboy types hang out at the outpost. The story is about betrayal, but it is almost Gothic in the way it renders the stillness of the blank desert and the pink-cheeked yokels grotesque and terrifying...
...asked a Parisian or a New Yorker in 1886 what sculpture was, the answer (after a short blank stare) would have been: statues. Statuary, to borrow the mordant phrase of Claes Oldenburg many decades later, was "bulls and greeks and lots of nekkid broads." The sculptor of that day was responsible -- as in the age of film, TV and other ways of mass-circulating the visual icon he is not -- for commemorating the dead, illustrating religious myth or dogma and expressing social ideals. The aim and meaning of the work were rarely in doubt. With statues, good or bad, from...