Word: blankings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...opening day of school in September, Smith, 46, gives his students blank grids and tells them to draw their versions of the globe. These are revealing documents. One student skipped Europe altogether. Another put Antarctica at the North Pole. A third had Asia due north of Europe, while a fourth placed England squarely in Africa. "My first map was a complete disgrace," admits Adrian Nivola. Recalls Tao Nguyen: "I drew a big blob...
Never mind. One in 7 Americans cannot find the U.S. on a blank world map, and 1 in 4 cannot locate the Pacific Ocean, according to a 1988-89 Gallup survey commissioned by the National Geographic Society. In the same poll, American students ages 18 to 24 came in dead last among ten countries tested in geography. Half did not know that the Panama Canal cuts sailing time between New York City and San Francisco...
...with DM-day come and gone, the mood is uneasy. While West Germans fret over the blank check they have signed, East Germans fear that before they enter the earthly paradise, they may have to pass through a purgatory of inflation and unemployment. They are also concerned that they may prove to be easy pickings for predatory Westerners, or Wessis in G.D.R. parlance. Certainly, the Wessis are coming. Hotels are packed with Western businessmen eager to cut deals, whether the object of desire is a state-owned company, retail floor space, or a summer home on the Baltic...
...made by hundreds of well-paid technicians in Hollywood and called Gremlins 2. The film is so much about itself that it summons up a movie critic (Entertainment Tonight's Leonard Maltin) to offer a pan of Gremlins One. Halfway through, the film breaks down, the screen goes blank, and then gremlins are seen taking over the movie house. In the lobby a mother shouts at the theater manager, "This is even worse than the last...
...live. The house seemed spacious and yet cozy. Naturally, we anticipated microphones in the dacha. It turned out that the receivers and tape recorders had been installed in the little gatehouse. The equipment was mediocre, and the eavesdropping was quite careless. The guards sometimes substituted music tapes for the blank recording tapes to while away the long evenings. When they did, we could make out the faint melodies through the walls of Father's room; the microphones had become speakers. A couple of times, on hearing the music, I pretended to be surprised and proposed searching for the source...