Word: blankings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...season's hottest / tickets. At about the same time she met her future husband, United Nations Translator Kibbe Fitzpatrick, and he, brave fellow, undertook to give her dancing its final finish. Onstage, said her love, Ashley was "no fun"-- pursed lips, stuck-out chin, blank stare or silly smile. Out went the mannerisms, and the ballerina began to show that she enjoyed her own performances. Ashley's perfectionism shows in several picture sequences, photographed expertly by Jack Vartoogian, in which she demonstrates how to perform some basic moves of ballet. Her explanations are models of clarity. They take time...
...authorities bought pilfered flak jackets, combat knives, .45-cal. magazines and sleeping bags from Camp Pendleton Marines for 10% to 20% of their cost. "Marines were quite literally breaking down the door trying to sell us gear," said FBI Agent John Kelso. Among the purloined goods were 9,400 blank military ID cards, which could have been used for access to mili tary bases. Most of the gear was never reported missing. Some inventories even showed an over stock, indicating that higher-ups may at least have winked at the practice...
...taught himself, through a lifetime of small disappointments, to accept that he will never be a Mozart. It is not till the end of this Sunday that he realizes the importance of following his own little melody. He puts aside his sofa still life, sets out a fresh blank canvas and ponders his resolution to start anew...
...form over which they had achieved a reasonable degree of mastery. They were, in a sense, trying to unravel the fabric of society from the inside. The most famous Dadaist, Marcel Duchamp, said "Dada was the extreme protest against the physical side of painting, a metaphysical attitude, a blank force." In the late teens, Duchamp became an accomplished chess player and decided to give up painting because it "bored" him. Thus, the Dadas were not street corner vandals: intellectually, they were seeking to turn art on itself and drag all of society down with it, so that mankind could start...
...above that of the man in the street: it often required knowledge of two languages to understand their puns. The punks require no such education. Anyone who is willing to endure the disgusted stares of his parents can be a punk. Through punk, one can experience Duchamp's "blank force" of protest at its basest level. Because punk is a fashion, it will surely fade away eventually. But because almost everyone in the country has at least a vague idea of what punk looks like--if not what it is--punk will not fade as completely as Dada has. Even...