Word: blankings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...huge billboard at the town limit warns that DISPLAY OF WEAPONS, FIRING OF BLANK AMMUNITION AND ARRESTS MAY OCCUR. IF CHALLENGED, PLEASE FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS. HAVE A NICE DAY! And true to its admonition, mock bank robberies, kidnapings and drug busts take place like clockwork. Mayor Pledger brags that Hogan's Alley is the most crime-ridden town in the world. Says Pledger: "The next crime wave is usually just around the corner. Fortunately for us, though, we've got a 100% success rate at catching criminals...
Folon's watercolor-washed world features serpentine arrows, pedestrian- dwarfing buildings and blank-faced men, as well as rainbows, birds and boats. In The Silence, 1974, he makes the enigmatic figure of a sphinx his own. The mythical creature, at rest in a blazing desert landscape, raises one blue finger to its lips to demand tranquillity with an inaudible "Shhh!" The etching titled New York Times, 1974, shows square-headed city folk blown about by the wind as they clutch copies of their favorite paper. Other images add a message to the mirth. The Feast, 1983, packs a chilling political...
Baker bore the scolding with a blank expression. Then both men emphasized the positive. Mandela characterized their discussions as "dominated by the spirit of friendship." Baker hailed Mandela's courage as "something the world has taken note...
...secessionist warlord in Belorussia grabs some nuclear weapons from Soviet stockpiles and brandishes them? Or Hungary presses revanchist claims to Transylvania? Astonishing developments might not always be as welcome as they were last year. The Administration's warning is deliberately vague. It invites listeners to fill in the blank with their own worst fears. The American manifesto for the '90s is that a specter is haunting Europe, the specter of "unpredictability" and "instability." Those were the words that Bush used, standing beside Kohl at Camp David last month, to identify the enemy that has taken the place of Soviet expansionism...
...brick bungalow across the street from Holy Name Catholic Church, where about 180 families wait in line for bags of food. Babies chugging from bottles lounge in shopping carts, while toddlers diligently pile pebbles in the driveway. Mothers and a few fathers stand stoically in the warm sun, their blank stares reflecting hunger, poverty and fatigue. Yet their ennui dissolves in the face of the Madres' perky compassion...