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Word: blankings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...should collect because then they tend to find themselves in a net of obligations to artists and dealers that may be to the detriment of their own work," he says. "Besides, it is very restful, after a hard day in museums, to come home and look at a nice blank wall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From the Publisher: Jun. 17, 1985 | 6/17/1985 | See Source »

...pace of the decay. Says Lanny Bell, director of Chicago House, the field project at Luxor established by the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute: "In 200 years, many of the reliefs, which are really the significant part of these temples, will be gone. There will be only blank walls and columns left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Egypt Battles a Sleeping Devil | 5/27/1985 | See Source »

...acting ability is less important than "screen presence." Maybe so, but he takes artlessness to an extreme. Gary Cooper seems mannered and fidgety by comparison. As a loner cop in Lone Wolf McQuade (1983) or as a loner cop in Code of Silence, Norris comes across as an expressionless blank, conveying nothing but tenacity and absolute cool. His body is impeccable, but the voice is flat and high pitched. He has instructed writers to give him as few lines as possible, yet he rushes the elemental dialogue that remains. Words slur: "didn't" becomes "dint." If he is the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: And Now, a Wham-Bam Superstar: Chuck Norris | 5/20/1985 | See Source »

...verbal interplay is made possible by a parser, the part of the computer program that interprets players' commands. The first adventure-style programs contained parsers capable only of responding to simple noun-verb combinations such as Go north, Take sword, or Kill troll. In the late 1970s, however, Marc Blank, who is now a vice president at Infocom, and a colleague at M.I.T.'s lab for computer science, devised more sophisticated parsers with the aid of an artificialintelligence language called MDL (pronounced mud-dle). Then, in 1979, Blank and newly formed Infocom released Zork I, the first of the Zork...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Stepping into the Story | 5/13/1985 | See Source »

...word processors, which are open to use by all University affiliates, operate on a dollar-an hour basics and require blank diskettes for users to store their files...

Author: By Matthew H. Joseph, | Title: Coin-Ops Lose $100,000; Program May Be Ended | 5/10/1985 | See Source »

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