Word: blankings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...science in the real world, as Le Guin was reminded last month when the Public Broadcasting Service carried a TV adaptation of her novel The Lathe of Heaven. A winter storm knocked out the power in much of Portland, leaving many of her local friends and fans with blank screens...
...then Harvard coach Billy Cleary started dangling the prospect of playing in the Beanpot instead of just watching it. Did Burke really want to spend four years in South Bend, Indiana, where the word "Beanpot" draws a blank stare instead of glazed eyes? He did not. "I'd sacrifice almost anything just to win a Beanpot," the sophomore center says...
AMERICAN GIGOLO sizzles in Paul Schrader's panning camera, exuding the noxious odor of a raw, sandy strip of Canadian bacon. Dripping of fat, California oozes like a wet silkscreen across a blank matte, uninhibited, rubber-spun, Midasized. California as a deathly seducer, California as a golden road to Luke's Body Shop, California as a white and fiery sale for polished, antique organs--Schrader takes no chances. He plays fixed checkers, hopping from red to black, focusing where the sun shines. But American Gigolo dies even as a mere California movie because it doesn't know where...
...illusion of journalistic integrity is no less dangerous than to be blinded by religious zeal. Millions will see the cover, but how many will know or understand your intention? You could have shown true courage in publishing the Man of the Year issue with an all black-and-blank cover...
...Aven paintings against the more ordinary folklorique images by now forgotten academicians like Emile Vernier or Alfred Guillou. Never before had French art experienced such a plague of nuns and innocent provincial virgins. The trend was neatly parodied by a journalist, Alphonse Allais, who in 1883 exhibited a perfectly blank sheet of white paper with the title First Communion of Anemic Young Girls in the Snow...