Word: blankings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...after Nov. 22, the record simply went blank. An anguished and fascinating process of canonization ensued. The television networks focused their gaze on the story almost continuously from Parkland Memorial Hospital to Arlington National Cemetery, as if in professional tribute to the first President who understood the medium and performed perfectly in it. In sanctifying his memory, videotape became Kennedy's Parson Weems. The reality of what the nation had lost was preserved with unprecedented, unthinkable vividness: his holographic ghost moving and talking inside every television set, that American dreamboat campaigning through the primaries among leaping and squealing adolescent...
...extracurricular and/or athletic contribution, and personal qualities on a list from one to six (one being truly outstanding, six being unrecommendable for admissions). The descriptions for each level are relatively objective and general enough that alumni could hazard opinions after an hour's interview. The form concluded with a blank page for the alumni's general impression of the student...
...that inspiration can arrive and vanish without cause and that Hammett's chief tragedy was in holding himself accountable for something beyond his gifts or character. Even so, as she sees it, he showed a streak of heroism, not in his work so much as in "the long blank years that prove the spirit." That kind of exit line is equal to the worst of Hammett's life-and the best of his work...
...shaking it back into life. The place is so ambiguously quiet that after a while the kitschy little statue starts to come alive. Small changes take on enhanced significance, as in Wind, 1983, where the whipping of the cypress fronds, black as gnawed brushes against an unmemorably blank sky, is al most the only change (apart from eyeline) from one panel to the next. In this way -paradoxically enough, in view of her constricted subject - Bartlett emerges as a master of narrative tone. There is more in her garden than could ever have met the house agent...
Sunday, the Crimson opened strong. Very early goalie Brian Graham made a point-blank save on the Bruins' Steve Ennis, helping to spark the Crimson to an early 2-0 lead. After surrendering a man-up goal in the waning seconds of the first period. Harvard collapsed. In the second period the Crimson allowed five more unanswered goals...