Word: blankings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Police quickly grabbed Marcus Simon Sarjeant, 17, an unemployed youth from a small town near Dover, and charged him with "wilfully discharging at the Queen blank cartridges with intent to alarm her." Despite fears that the shooting was some kind of warning from the Irish Republican Army, the action may merely have been a protest against the lack of jobs for young Britons. An official spokesman acknowledged that there would probably be a "re-examination of security" for next month's royal wedding, which might take some of the festivity out of the occasion...
...them frontally, as at a real mirror, but nothing shows up in their superficial depths. The spectator is a phantom. These icy, imperturbable tondos and ovals may say more about the nature of Lichtenstein's imagination than anything he has painted since. What could convey better than a blank mirror his belief that exhibitions of the self are hateful in painting...
DIED. Roger Wheeler, 55, multimillionaire entrepreneur in oil, minerals, real estate and sporting ventures, also chairman and largest stockholder of the Telex Corp., a Tulsa-based computer and electronics firm with 1980 revenues of $186.5 million; of a gunshot to the head, fired at point-blank range by an unknown assailant, as he got into his car after a regular weekly golf game; in Tulsa. The owner of World Jai Alai in Miami and former owner of Hartford (Conn.) Jai Alai, Wheeler had testified publicly about alleged underworld involvement in the sport...
That was the extent of the scoring in the first half, as Francesca Den Hartog, who was blanked against both Maryland and Temple, had a free position blocked. Annie MacMillan bounced a breakaway attempt over the goal, and Worsley denied Maryland twice on point-blank. "O-no-Harvard's down-to-one" attempts...
...hardly resigned to a marginal role under a Mitterrand presidency, however. Indeed, Marchais was quick to show that ill urging his disciplined followers to vote for Mitterrand in last week's runoff, he was making less than a genuine fraternal gesture of leftist solidarity. "This is not a blank check," he said and then asked, "Have you ever seen me support anyone for free?" There is little doubt that the wily proletarian leader will soon be knocking at the portals of Elysée Palace to present his bill: Communist ministers in government, and radical economic programs...