Word: blankings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Daytes, 14, studied his blank picture-frame cryptically...
...supposed weaker player is an idea that radiates from these rare, passionate pieces of Bak's paintings. In Symposium, sagacious men discuss where to replant their tree which floats above, its roots emerging from an egg, its branches unseen. These prudent scholars consult sheets devoid of script, blank as the future...
...love with his face--it captures every pore in an effort to prove just how godly he is. Instead of taking advantage of the chance to react to each statement and give us subtle clues to his character's actual thoughts, Pitt prefers being mysterious. His face remains blank for nearly three hours, occasionally flashing the famous smile. "You wanna know what I'm thinking?" he seems to be asking with his random pauses and interminable stares into the camera. The problem is, of course, that Pitt really isn't thinking. Death, as a character, is incomprehensible and thus unengaging...
...novel suffers by any comparison to Bastard out of Carolina or any other tale of an abusive childhood. While Ruth Anne Boatwright remains in the reader's memory, Ray Johnson is easily forgotten, with only the horrible tales of abuse to vaguely haunt the readers, tales of suffering with blank-faced victims at the center...
...mail," she said tersely, and turned to the next blank face waiting for help...