Word: blankings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jarmusch told The Crimson that "Dead Man" most significantly alters the traditional Western rubric by presenting a main character who is passive. "Johnny's character starts out very mild-mannered, but he's such a blank piece of paper that people want to write all over it." For Jarmusch, Blake's defining moment is when, having been asked by two sheriffs in the woods if he is the outlaw William Blake, he responds, "Yes...Do you know my poetry?" In this moment, according to Jarmusch, Blake accedes to Nobody's assessment of him and "surrenders to his destiny...
Depp handles his "blank page" role well, his face as untroubled as a statue's despite the violence he sees. Scenes are intentionally stolen one after the other by cameo players such as John Hurt, Alfred Molina, Crispin Glover and Iggy Pop as the inexplicable transvestite/cannibal Salvatore "Sally" Jenko. In "Dead Man," these unlikely cameos provide a solid, convincing foundation on which the larger drama plays itself...
Finally, I resolved to contact my house User Assistant. She was upbeat for awhile, but it soon became clear that the soul of my precious hard drive seemed to be gone. I took a deep breath and re-installed the system disks, effectively creating a blank slate. The next day, a friend was able to retrieve a few of the important files using "Disk Doctor" and a little magic. That took an hour, and sapped my will to keep trying...
These days, my machine is down to the bare minimum. For the first week since the crash, I just opened e-mail over the network, and left my hard drive blank-hoping that somehow the spirit of thing would return in the night and everything would be the way it used to be. A few days ago, I finally brought myself to install Word again, realizing that my teaching fellows would not exactly buy the excuse that I could not turn in my response paper because I was having a computer mourning period...
...demanded that Ed keep good records," Hyman said. "Ed wanted me to sign blank checks...