Word: blankings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Freshman Hurlers Whitewash Columbia...Larson, Doyle Blank Lions By 11-0, 7-0" (March...
...walls; for variety, they were sometimes stained rust, pale green, pale blue or ?the favorite color of the Mexican peasant?bright pink. Water was run over craggy stone or along the wall tops, seeping down to aid the growth of moss. On the street side, the walls were blank, shutting out the city and its noise. Buyers were few at first, but eventually the once despised El Pedregal lava plain became Mexico City's most elegant residential area...
...Barragán is a towering (6 ft. 6 in.), craggy man of charming mien and Old World manners. He has never married and lives in the house he designed for himself years ago at the edge of El Pedregal. Characteristically it presents a nearly blank wal to the street. For Barragán is above all an architect of seclusion of serenity in a noisy world. Says he: "Art is made by the alone for the alone...
...idea of happiness, Hitchcock once said, was "a clear horizon, no clouds, no shadows. Nothing." Given a choice, it seems possible that he would have cho sen to live in a blank world rather than a chance universe, where the evil and the unexpected? perhaps they were the same thing to him ? could suddenly crowd in upon one, where everyone knew he was guilty of something, if not necessarily what he was being punished for. It is a measure of his achievement that he lit erally made light of these dark feelings, miraculously transforming them into deft and graceful popular...
...whose braceletted hands are removing her underpants.) And nearly all the pictures display a reluctance (shared by most contemporary painters) to deal directly with, or even to acknowledge, the complexities of a human face--the majority of faces in these photographs are cropped or obscured, or wear blank looks...